A joint team of Govindpura Police and the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested a young man travelling on a passenger bus with around one kilogram of hashish.[1] On Wednesday evening the bus was stopped near Govindpura Police Station and the passengers were checked.[1] The accused was identified as 25-year-old Sheezan Khan, a resident of Kerala.[1] After the operation the accused was handed over to the NCB for further investigation and questioning.[2]

Officers found around one kilogram of hashish in his bag.[1] Police estimated the seized hashish was worth around Rs 30 lakh in the international market.[1] Preliminary investigation suggests he had hidden the hashish in his bag so that no one would suspect him during the journey.[1]

Police said a checking campaign with the NCB was under way amid suspicions that narcotics were being smuggled on passenger buses.[1] During that campaign police received information that a young man was travelling by passenger bus from Delhi to Hyderabad carrying hashish.[1] Interrogation revealed that the accused had boarded a bus from Delhi and was travelling to Hyderabad carrying the narcotics.[2] Govindpura TI Awadhesh Singh Tomar said the NCB team was questioning the accused.[1] Investigators are trying to establish where he obtained the hashish and to whom he was to deliver it in Hyderabad.[1] Investigators are also examining whether the accused was linked to a large narcotics trafficking network or was supplying the hashish alone.[1]