Authorities in India have arrested a Kenyan woman for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested the 43-year-old woman Sunday. The woman had ingested six tablets containing cocaine that she was to handover to someone in the city before she was apprehended by DRI.
An official said the accused, identified as Florence Indangasi, was flying from Nairobi to Mumbai and reached Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Friday morning when she was apprehended based on intelligence.
The DRI conducted searches in her baggage and clothes. However, nothing was found.
DRI officials said that on interrogation she said she had consumed six tablets containing narcotics following which she was admitted to the JJ hospital after authorities got permission from Esplanade court. A total of six capsules in pellet form were retrieved from her digestive system with analysis confirming that the capsules contained a total of 665.5 grams of cocaine in powder form.
Indangasi was booked under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and placed under arrest.
An official said they are now trying to find out who was to receive the particular consignment from her. “It appears she was a part of a wider drug smuggling racket operating from Kenya,” the official added.
This comes barely four months after another Kenyan woman was arrested in India at the same Mumbai airport for allegedly smuggling 1.7 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated value of Ksh268 million.
