The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai Zonal Unit, on Thursday arrested two persons, including the truck driver, for allegedly smuggling 9.69 kg of opium valued at over Rs 5 crore. The driver, identified as Bablu Khan, was traveling from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh via the Nashik highway and was intercepted near Kasara.

According to the DRI officials, they had received specific intelligence about a large quantity of heroin, a substance regulated under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, being transported in a brown Ashok Leyland Ecomet truck travelling from Nashik towards Mumbai on NH 44.