Archive · 1 Oct 2026
DRI Seizes 4.9 Kilograms Cocaine at Hyderabad Airport
Officials received information that an Indian passenger arriving from Doha might be carrying cocaine.
They stopped him at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on September 29.
His seven chocolate tubes seemed heavier than the weights printed on them.
Officers opened the tubes and found 207 hidden capsules.
The capsules contained a white powder.
A testing kit indicated that the powder was cocaine.
The seized substance weighed 4.9 kilograms and was valued at about Rs 24.5 crore.
The passenger was arrested under India’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
Further investigation was in progress.
DRI Hyderabad intercepted an Indian passenger arriving from Doha, Qatar, at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on September 29.
Officials found seven Lindt Lindor assorted dark chocolate tubes, each marked as weighing 387 grams.
The unusually heavy tubes contained 207 light-yellow oval-shaped capsules hidden among the chocolates.
A narcotic drug detection kit indicated that the white powder inside the capsules was cocaine.
DRI seized 4.9 kilograms of cocaine valued at Rs 24.5 crore and arrested the passenger under the NDPS Act, 1985.
- Who
- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence Hyderabad Zonal Unit and an Indian passenger arriving from Doha, Qatar.
- What
- DRI seized 4.9 kilograms of cocaine concealed in chocolate tubes and arrested the passenger.
- When
- September 29; the report was published on September 30.
- Where
- Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad, Hyderabad.
- Why
- The passenger was intercepted based on specific intelligence that he might be carrying cocaine.
- Agency
- Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Hyderabad Zonal Unit
- Route
- Doha, Qatar, to Hyderabad
- Drug seized
- Cocaine
- Quantity
- 4.9 kilograms gross weight
- Estimated illicit-market value
- Rs 24.5 crore
- Concealment method
- 207 capsules hidden inside seven chocolate selection tubes
- Legal action
- Passenger arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
- Investigation status
- Further investigation was in progress
