Chennai, Nov 2 (IANS): The Chennai Air Customs on Monday said it has seized 100 tablets of narcotic MDMA, valued at about Rs 4 lakh.
The agency recovered the tablets from two postal parcels which arrived from the Netherlands at the Foreign Post Office here.
On examination, the first parcel was found to contain a plastic pouch, and on opening it, 60 grey colour tablets, suspected to be of MDMA, were recovered.
The tablets, known as "Reaper" and embossed with a skull mark, contain 350 mg of MDMA which is very high dose.
From the second parcel, a plastic pouch containing 40 green colour tablets suspected to be MDMA were found, the Customs said.
These tablets, known as "Red Bull" as they were embossed with a bull mark, contain around 225 mg of MDMA.
The parcels were addressed to two individuals in Chennai city. On searches, both the names and addresses were found to be fake.