Based on specific intelligence that certain anti-social elements were trying to procure and smuggle Methaqualone, a scheduled drug under the Narcotic Drugs and Psyschotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the officers of DRI Hyderabad Regional Unit intercepted a consignment and seized the narcotic substance, DRI Additional Director S A Usmani said.
The narcotic substance weighing 28 kg is worth Rs 5.04 crore in the international market, he said.
The consignment was sent as normal cargo to a private transporter at Osmangunj and the two persons who came to pick up the parcel from the transporter's office were intercepted by the DRI officers, Usmani said in a release.
The duo, (whose identification was not revealed), were arrested and produced before a local court which remanded them in 14-days judicial custody.