Overview
- Officers from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence’s Hyderabad unit searched a long‑distance passenger bus after receiving specific intelligence and recovered four hidden packets from beneath sleeper‑berth mattresses.
- The packets together weighed 1.136 kg and the DRI has valued the suspected drug at about Rs 1.1 crore.
- Field‑testing kits returned a presumptive positive for methamphetamine and the consignment was seized under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
- A preliminary inquiry by the DRI linked the berths to passengers who boarded in Bhopal and got off in Nagpur, and investigators say further forensic tests and follow‑up probes are underway.
- Long‑distance sleeper buses are known routes for concealment because multiple boarding and alighting points complicate tracing responsibility, and officials will rely on lab confirmation and passenger inquiries to pursue charges.