DRI Seizes 15.59 kg Drugs in Three Operations, 5 Arrested

The correct answer is 15.59 kg. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized this cumulative quantity of amphetamine, cocaine and heroin in three separate intelligence-led operations carried out on 29 and 30 September 2026, and five persons were arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985. The total is made up of the amphetamine recovered near Indore, the cocaine found at Hyderabad airport and the heroin taken near Phillaur in Punjab.

Option A gives only the weight of the amphetamine pulled out of the spare tyre of the vehicle intercepted in Madhya Pradesh, so it is a part and not the whole. Option D gives only the cocaine recovered from the chocolate tubes at Hyderabad, which is again one share of the total. Option C is not a figure reported in any of the three cases. Adding the three recoveries together gives the cumulative seizure of 15.59 kg.

The correct answer is Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad. Acting on precise intelligence, officers there stopped an Indian passenger who had arrived from Doha. Seven chocolate tubes in his cabin baggage were heavier than their marked weight, and on being opened they were found to hold 207 pale-yellow oval capsules packed with a white powder. A narcotic drug detection kit confirmed the powder as cocaine, and the recovery came to 4.9 kg. The passenger was arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985.

The airports named in options A, B and D are among the busiest in the country, which makes them plausible choices, but none of them figures in this case. The other two operations of the same round took place on roads, one at the Ujjain-Dewas Toll Plaza in Madhya Pradesh and the other near Phillaur in Punjab, not at any airport.

The correct answer is the Central Bureau of Narcotics, abbreviated CBN. It joined the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in stopping a Mahindra Thar at the Ujjain-Dewas Toll Plaza in Madhya Pradesh. The driver broke the barricade and drove off, and the officers chased the vehicle for about an hour and a half before cornering it near Bicholi Mardana in Indore. A search showed a hollow in the spare tyre on the rear door, where 21 packets holding 7.116 kg of a whitish-yellow crystalline substance were hidden. A field test kit confirmed amphetamine, and the three occupants were arrested.

The Narcotics Control Bureau, the National Investigation Agency and the Central Bureau of Investigation are all central agencies, which makes options A, C and D look plausible, but none of them is named as the partner in this interception.