NEW DELHI: Customs department at the Foreign Post Office in Delhi seized 1,810 grams of narcotics, concealed in 20 separate DVD writers bound for Australia. Officials suspect the drugs to be party drugs with valuation worth crores in the international market.

The seizure was made after weeks of scanning parcels bound for foreign countries after a tip-off was received by the Customs department. « We got suspicious when we found a fictitious name on the list of parcels bound for Australia, after which we scanned all parcels thoroughly, » said a Customs official.