20 kg drugs found in cabin wall of train toilet

  • | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

VARANASI: The directorate of revenue intelligence sleuths from Varanasi field unit caught a consignment of 20 kg charas from general compartment of Delhi-bound Satyagrah Express at Pipraich railway in Gorakhpur district on Monday evening.According to directorate of revenue intelligence Varanasi unit in-charge Anand Rai, on a tip-off, he rushed a team to Gorakhpur district. This trick of drug smuggling ends possibility of nabbing of their carriers, he said adding that after packing consignments in trains the members of the gangs forward the bogie number to the persons, who receive it in Delhi or other cities. Rai said that the packets of charas were recovered on breaking cabin walls of toilet of a general compartment of the Satyagrah Express.Following the initial investigation, Rai said, it surfaced that the consignment had been kept in the train in Raxaul (Bihar) to send it to Delhi.He said that some gangs, which hide consignments of drugs by opening upper chambers of toilets in trains, are on the radar of directorate of revenue intelligence.

VARANASI: The directorate of revenue intelligence sleuths from Varanasi field unit caught a consignment of 20 kg charas from general compartment of Delhi-bound Satyagrah Express at Pipraich railway in Gorakhpur district on Monday evening.According to directorate of revenue intelligence Varanasi unit in-charge Anand Rai, on a tip-off, he rushed a team to Gorakhpur district. Rai said that the packets of charas were recovered on breaking cabin walls of toilet of a general compartment of the Satyagrah Express.Following the initial investigation, Rai said, it surfaced that the consignment had been kept in the train in Raxaul (Bihar) to send it to Delhi.He said that some gangs, which hide consignments of drugs by opening upper chambers of toilets in trains, are on the radar of directorate of revenue intelligence. This trick of drug smuggling ends possibility of nabbing of their carriers, he said adding that after packing consignments in trains the members of the gangs forward the bogie number to the persons, who receive it in Delhi or other cities.

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