Around 497 gram heroin worth about Rs 1.5 crore was seized at Andheri from two steel flasks being smuggled inside a courier parcel from South Africa and destined to Vikhroli, said sources in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

Based on a tip-off, on December 27 a team of DRI officers went for the identification and examination of the said consignment at an International Courier Hub in Andheri. The parcel contained baby clothes and two stainless steel flasks. Examination of the flasks revealed that their bottom had been tampered with. The DRI officials then cut open the flasks and an off-white powdery substance was found between the inner and outer walls of the flasks and was identified as heroin, said DRI officials.