Agar Malwa, March 21 Police in the Agar Malwa district of Madhya Pradesh seized 613.6 kg of poppy husk, valued at Rs 1.22 crore, from a truck and arrested a man on Saturday.
The container truck was en route to Punjab, an official said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ravindra Kumar Boyat said that the Kotwali police received information about a truck carrying poppy husk concealed among sacks of soybean.
The truck was intercepted at Ganesh Ghati on the Agar-Sarangpur Road. Upon inspection, police found the narcotic substance hidden in 31 black sacks among 325 sacks loaded in the truck.
Driver Vikar Singh Bhullar (around 35 years), a resident of the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, did not possess the license required for transporting the substance, the official said.
A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at the Kotwali police station in Agar, and further investigation is underway, ASP Boyat added.