A NARCOTICS OFFICER DISPLAYS A LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY IDENTITY CARD IN BOMBAY, 2000-02-19 (photo)

A narcotics officer displays an identity card from the Lancashire constabulary in England belonging to Indian passport holder Mubarak Abdul Rehman Shabir at a news conference in Bombay, February 19. Mubarak and four accomplices were nabbed while trying to board a flight to Manchester with five kilograms of pure heroin. The heroin was concealed in a suitcase with a false bottom and covered with dry fish in a attempt to fool sniffer dogs. Mubarak who confessed to the crime allegedly told the police that he had been smuggling drugs to the United Kingdom for the last two years. The heroin is worth 50 million rupees ($1.15 million) in the international market. SK/TAN