However, when the army storms their hideout, Tintin manages to elude the policemen who escapes. Boarding a plane, Tintin escapes Arabia but runs out of fuel over India, crashing into the jungle. After saving a sick elephant, Tintin discovers Sarcophagus, who has become insane. While seeking for help at a nearby village, Sarcophagus attempts to kill Tintin on command by a fakir. Tintin then interrogates a poet Zloty who is visiting the village along with a doctor. He reveals that there is an international drug smuggling ring determined to kill Tintin. Before he can reveal who is the boss, he was injected with Rajaijah juice, the poison of madness, by the fakir. When Tintin brings the two madmen to the hospital for treatment, Tintin is institutionalized in the asylum as a result of the fakir forging a letter by the doctor, alleging that Tintin is the one who is mad. He soon escapes from the hospital by train. Meeting the Maharaja of Gaipajama, the two become friends, with the Maharaja revealing that his family has long been fighting a criminal opium-smuggling gang, and in the process his father and brother went mad. The fakir appears and Tintin follows him, discovers the drug cartel's hideout and infiltrates a meeting. Tintin manages to knock the others out when they attempt to find out who is the traitor among them. The Thompsons arrives and explains to Tintin that the Cairo police manages to discover a gang of drug smugglers and their hideout in Egypt. They also realise Tintin is innocent and finds out about the hideout in India, which is where they are. The fakir escapes, and with the masked leader of the conspiracy kidnaps the Maharaja's son. Tintin pursues them in a sports car, rescuing the boy and capturing the fakir, while the leader falls into a chasm, seemingly dying. Tintin returns to Gaipajama, where his return is celebrated. Unwrapping one of the cigars with the mysterious Kih-Oskh symbol, Tintin explains to the Maharaja how opium was smuggled across the world in the cigars.