Overview
- At Kempegowda International Airport on January 30, Customs arrested a passenger arriving from Bangkok and seized 7.92 kg of hydroponic ganja worth Rs 2.77 crore concealed in checked-in baggage.
- Mumbai Customs on January 30 arrested 27-year-old S.K.S. Thirumalaiah after finding 11,207 grams of hydroponic weed valued at Rs 11.20 crore in a trolley bag, and a court remanded him to judicial custody after he admitted the offence for money.
- From January 21 to 29 at Mumbai’s CSMIA, four Bangkok arrivals were caught with hydroponic weed valued about Rs 26.52 crore, with arrests made under the NDPS Act after the drugs were found in trolley bags.
- At Delhi’s IGI Airport, officers on January 26 seized 9.84 kg of marijuana worth roughly Rs 9.83 crore from a Bangkok passenger identified through spot profiling, leading to an arrest.
- Customs highlight passenger profiling and targeted intelligence to disrupt routes also used for gold, diamonds and foreign currency in Mumbai, where recent seizures included 3,632 g of gold (about Rs 4.99 crore), 2,132 g of diamonds (Rs 1.81 crore) and currency equal to Rs 1.18 crore, with investigations still in early stages.