Hyderabad, Oct 24 The DRI has seized methamphetamine weighing 1.136 kg and valued at approximately Rs 1.1 crore from a bus here, officials said on Saturday.
Based on specific intelligence, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence’s Hyderabad Zonal Unit, conducted a search of a passenger bus arriving in Hyderabad from Bhopal on October 23, a DRI release said.
During examination, four packets containing suspected narcotic substances were recovered, concealed underneath the mattresses of sleeper berths.
The substance tested positive for methamphetamine using a field-testing kit, it said.
Preliminary enquiry revealed that the passengers occupying the berths had boarded the bus at Bhopal and alighted at Nagpur.
The suspected methamphetamine, weighing 1.136 kg was seized under the NDPS Act, 1985, the DRI said adding further investigation is underway.
(PTI News)
