Another drug haul at Hyderabad Airport, heroin worth Rs 11.53 cr seized

Hyderabad: In yet another major drug haul at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Customs officials seized heroin worth Rs 11.53 crore from a Tanzanian national.
The Customs officials said 1,389 kg of heroin was seized from the male passenger who arrived from Johannesburg via Abu Dhabi on April 26.
The passenger purged 108 capsules containing the contraband heroin over a period of six days.
The passenger was arrested and remanded to judicial custody. Further investigation is on, the officials said.
This is the fourth seizure of heroin at Hyderabad in less than two weeks.
Eight kilogram cocaine worth Rs 80 crore was seized from two passengers by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) late on May 1.