India, March 6 -- The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested five people and seized over 77 kg of hashish oil while dismantling an international drug trafficking network operating across Nepal, India and Sri Lanka, officials said on Friday.

The agency's Chennai and Hyderabad zonal units jointly conducted the operation after receiving intelligence about a cross-border drug supply chain that moved contraband from Nepal through India to Sri Lanka via sea routes.

Officials said the breakthrough came on Tuesday, when officers from the Hyderabad Zonal Unit intercepted a Tata Safari Storme near Raikal Toll Plaza on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad highway in Telangana. During a search of the vehicle, officers found 2 kg of charas concealed inside ...