Chennai:
A woman air passenger flying to Kuwait was arrested in Chennai by the Central Industrial Security Force for allegedly smuggling narcotics worth Rs 15 lakh.
The passenger, identified as Darbari Palagiri from Andhra Pradesh, had concealed 54 packets of heroin in her undergarments when she was intercepted by the CISF at the airport on Saturday, CISF sources said.
"She was handed over to custom officials along with the recovered narcotic substance weighing about 961 gm worth Rs 1 crore in international market and about Rs 15 lakh in India," a CISF official said.
She was flying to Kuwait on an Air India flight.