India, Feb. 24 -- The Delhi Police has arrested five men for allegedly running an international drug trafficking and seized over 513kg of illegal psychotropic tablets, police said on Monday.

According to police, the drugs were seized from Delhi and Mundra Port in Gujarat,and are valued at about Rs.8 crore.

Police said an investigation was launched on February 7 when they received an intelligence input that a group of men had been storing narcotics at Mehak Apartment in Madanpur Khadar.

A Crime Branch team was sent to the premises where they arrested a 50-year-old man with 14kgs of tramadol hydrochloride tablets.

DCP (crime) Vikram Singh said the accused, Mohd Abid, revealed that he had procured the drugs from his son-in-law Javed Khan...