Chennai, Feb 26 (ANI): Customs officials at Chennai Airport have
seized 25 kg of the internationally banned party drug, Ketamine, worth
over Rs.25 million from a 22-year-old Taiwanese passenger.
 
According to officials, Mohammed Mohideen Nasar was booked on a Thai Airways flight to Taiwan via Bangkok.

“After verifying his luggage, two cardboard cartons containing four
steel cans were found, and on splitting the outer layers of the
vessels, neatly packed Ketamine was recovered,”said C. Rajan,
Commissioner of Customs.

He has been sent to judicial custody

Ketamine, a variant of an anesthetic developed by the multinational
pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis in 1962, was primarily meant for
veterinary consumption. When over-used by humans sans medical
supervision, it increases blood pressure and causes hallucinations.

It has been banned worldwide since 2003. (ANI)