India, June 23 -- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 1.13-kg cocaine worth Rs.11.39 crore from an Ivory Coast national arriving from Sierra Leone, West Africa on Thursday at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The accused passenger had allegedly ingested tablets containing the substance, in a bid to smuggle them into India.

As many as 67 capsules, containing a total of 1.13-kg cocaine, were recovered from the accused passenger's body via medical procedures in a government hospital, agency sources said.

The passenger was intercepted by DRI at the airport on Thursday based on a specific intelligence tip-off that an Ivory Coast national may attempt to smuggle in narcotics, the sources said. Upon questioning...