KOTA: The Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) in Kota on Saturday arrested a 32-year-old truck driver and recovered over 4,800 kg of poppy husk packed in at least 233 plastic bags beneath packets of potato chips. The recovered contraband is estimated to be worth between Rs 90 and Rs 95 lakh in the market. The smuggler was on Sunday produced before the residential court in Kota that ordered to hand him over to the CBN on remand till February 26 for interrogation.
Following a tip that drugs were being smuggled in a truck from Madhya Pradesh to Rajasthan, a sleuth of the deputy commissioner office of CBN in Kota stopped a truck (RJ 19 GC 4830) at Faithapur toll plaza in Baran on Friday night, CBN deputy commissioner Vikas Joshi said.
Following a search, at least 233 plastic bags of the contraband was found. The driver, identified as Ramnivas Vishnoi (32), is a resident of Vishnoi Ki Dhani in Jodhpur district. He has been booked under various sections of NDPS Act.
During initial interrogation, the driver admitted that he was carrying the narcotics from Agar and Mandsour districts in Madhya Pradesh to Phalodi and Jodhpur for delivery.