Chennai:
The Customs department at the Chennai airport has seized a parcel containing 130 MDMA pills -- also known as ecstasy---when it arrived from France, officials said on Tuesday.
Department officials on opening the parcel at the foreign post office here seized Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MMDA) tablets worth Rs 4 lakh concealed in a plastic pouch that had arrived from Poulainville, a town in North France.
The parcel was addressed to an individual living in the city.
As a follow up, a manhunt was launched to trace the individual but the house was found to be locked. Enquiries revealed that no one was residing in that house since March, the officials added.
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