Mumbai-Hyderabad drug racket busted

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 17

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) today said it had busted a drug syndicate network operating in Hyderabad and Mumbai and seized over 250 kg of banned psychotropic substances worth Rs 47 crore in the market.

Officials in the agency said the agency also seized cash of Rs 45 lakh in INR, USD and EUR currency notes under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.

A senior DRI official said, “In a coordinated operation spread over three days across multiple locations in Mumbai and Hyderabad, agency officials seized over 250 kg of different drugs (psychotropic substances).”

Officials said acting on a tip-off that a consignment of Mephedrone, a banned psychotropic substance, was arriving in Mumbai on August 15 from Hyderabad, the DRI sleuths kept surveillance and intercepted the consignment as soon as it arrived from Hyderabad.

“The consignment was loaded in a private passenger bus as cargo with no one accompanying it to ensure that even if the consignment was caught, no individual could be linked to it,” the official said.