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Kavitha requested to be released on interim bail to be with her 16-year-old son whose exams are commencing the next month.
According to Excise officers, the accused told them they bought the substance from Mysuru for Rs 2 lakh, which would fetch them Rs 5 lakh in the retail market.
The officer valued the marijuana at Rs 15 lakh in the wholesale market and Rs 25 lakh in the retail market.
The accused told the Excise officers that he has Rs 30 lakhs as fixed deposit.
100 grams of Methamphetamine was confiscated from a trio that had smuggled the drug from Andhra-Odisha border.
The contraband was kept hidden in two backpack bags carried by the youth. The substance is valued at around Rs 1.62 lakh.
According to a source with the Excise, the team got information that the couple regularly smuggled liquor from Mahe and sold it in the district.
Sharafudheen, a wholesale dealer of MDMA, used to sell the stuff on NIT premises, said the excise officials.
The action was taken based on a tip-off the Excise Commissioner's central squad received that production of illicit liquor would go up during the Christmas-New Year season.
Manorama News reported that 1200 litre of illicit liquor was seized from the unit.