Madurai, Oct 11: Narcotic Central Bureau officials today seized heroin valued at Rs seven crore in the international market from a house at Jaihindpuram here and arrested two brothers hailing from Sri Lanka. The officials who raided the house early in the morning said the brothers Ramakrishnan and Ramar had been operating from Solaiazhagupuram area in Jaihindpuram and had been smuggling heroin to Sri Lanka via Rameswaram. The NCB sources said that both had been taken to Chennai for remand. Earlier the duo had been operating from Sholavandan. The NCB sources said that this was the second major seizure in the Madurai area which had become the hub for narcotic smuggling to south eastern countries in the last two weeks. Heroin worth Rs six crore was seized near Tiruparankunram by the NCB officials on September 24. Police had arrested four members of a gang in that connection .
Bureau Report