KUTOKA UDOSINI INDIA-Youth held with Rs 1.92 cr worth drugs

HYDERABAD: Immigration officials nabbed a suspicious looking youngster who was attempting to travel to Malaysia and seized Rs 1.92 crore worth Katemine Hydrochloride from his baggage on Wednesday.

According to sources, Ibrahim Allabaksh, 22, of Chennai, was nabbed by immigration sleuths while he was trying to board a Kuala Lumpur-bound flight.The sleuths grew suspicious when they noticed that Ibrahim was from Chennai and trying to board a flight from Hyderabad that too on a tourist visa.

“He was unable to explain why he was travelling from Hyderabad. He was detained and his ‘checked-in’ baggage was off-loaded from the plane,” the source said. When officials checked his baggage, they found 20 packets of milk powder. “Hidden inside the packets were sachets of Katemine Hydrochloride worth Rs 1.92 crore which he picked up from an agent in Hyderabad. Customs authorities arrested him,” the source added.