Mumbai:
Police have claimed to have busted an international drug racket with the arrest of four persons including one Buddha Giria, who had consumed several cocaine capsules to smuggle them out of the country.
According to the Sahar Airport police, 42-year-old Buddha Giria alias Sudhakar was hospitalised at Criticare after he fell unconscious at the Mumbai International Airport on April 15.
During the treatment, the doctors discovered 49 cocaine capsules in his stomach, which were removed through a surgery at the KEM Hospital. Also 190 milligrams of brown sugar was recovered from Sudhakar's shoes, who was subsequently arrested.
On interrogation it was learnt that Sudhakar was made to swallow the capsules laced with butter by Jahid Yusuf Kabli, Ashfaqe Yakoob Sheikh, Alex Lacely Richard Elango and six others. Kabli, Sheikh and Elango were also later held in Mumbai.
The contraband worth over Rs 4.60 lakh in the market, police said, was supposed to be handed over to a jail inmate at St George Hotel in Mauritius on the behest of one person from Tanzania.
Over Rs 38,000 were paid to Kabli for the same. Similarly, another person from Holland had deposited over Rs 1 lakh into Kabli's account.
Following the arrest of these four accused, Sahar police have claimed to busted drug trail from India to countries like Mauritius, Holland, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka.
While police have arrested Kabli, Sheikh, Elango, and sent them to judicial custody, Sudhakar is undergoing treatment at KEM Hospital.