Opium found in a courier parcel in Gurugram, suspect booked

Gurugram police book suspect for attempting to courier 44 grams of opium to Canada, hidden in a plastic container of chyawanprash from Punjab.

Gurugram police booked a suspect who allegedly tried to courier a parcel containing 44 grams of opium to a person in Canada, police said on Wednesday, adding that the contraband was hidden in a plastic container of chyawanprash and was couriered from Punjab.

Opium found in a courier parcel in Gurugram, suspect booked

According to police, a courier company employee detected something suspicious in the parcel on Monday, following which he informed the police and the Narcotics Control Bureau.

Mahinder Singh, assistant sub-inspector, Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau, said that he received a call from a courier company in Udyog Vihar regarding the suspicion.

“The courier company informed me that they suspected some contraband in the parcel. I went to their office and a security officer told me that their X-ray machine had detected some contraband inside a half-kilogram plastic container. We opened the consignment that contained a short, a t-shirt, one packet of candy, one packet of namkeen and a half kg box of chyawanprash, weighing 1.5 kilograms,” Singh said.

Police said following the complaint, a case was registered under Section 18 (c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act at Udyog Vihar police station.

Earlier on May 26, Gurugram police had also registered a similar case against a Punjab resident for allegedly trying to send opium to the United States by hiding two packets inside the boxes of Chyawanprash via courier.