Acting on a tip off, a joint team of SSB and DRI conducted a raid and seized the 10 packets of Methaqualone, a sedative equivalent to cocaine - each weighing 100 gm from Khagra overbridge area, SSB 12th battalion Deputy Commandant Kumar Sundaram said.
The team arrested the smugglers the moment they alighted from a bus with the drugs near Potato market on NH 31 and were later handed over to Kishanganj police.
The smugglers have been identified as residents of Pakur district of Jharkhand, the deputy commandant said adding that they had come to deliver the drugs from West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
DRI of Purnea, Vinod Mandal said that Methaqualone is equivalent to cocaine which are used in parties.
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