Five Bangkok flyers held at Bengaluru airport with about 59 kg hydroponic ganja
Customs officers at Kempegowda International Airport arrested four passengers who arrived on Thai Airways flight TG 325 from Bangkok carrying more than 50 kg of hydroponic ganja, which they valued at over Rs 17 crore. A fifth passenger from the same flight was caught with 9 kg of weed on Sunday.
🇮🇳 Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru, Karnataka · India
Four passengers who landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru were
arrested for carrying more than 50 kg of hydroponicganja.[1][2]Customs
officials at KIA confirmed that all four passengers travelled with separate
tickets and did not have any visible links with each other.[1]They boarded
Thai Airways flight TG 325 from Bangkok at 10pm on Thursday and reached KIA’s
Terminal 2 shortly after midnight on Friday.[1][2]Customs estimated the value of
the seized substance at more than Rs 17 crore.[1]
The four were Badruddin Ansari, 45, a native of West Bengal; Ketan, 22, from
Jind in Haryana; Stephen Young, 49, a resident of Kolkata; and Thanveer Khan, a
native of Nanjangud in Mysuru district.[1]Young carried the largest amount of
ganja, 15.7 kg in his check-in baggage, which customs valued at Rs 5.5 crore.[1][2]Thanveer carried the smallest amount, 10 kg, worth around Rs 3.5 crore.[1]
On Sunday, Shyam Motiramani, 44, a native of Bhavnagar in Gujarat who arrived on
the same flight, was caught with 9 kg of weed.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article dates the flight only as Thursday 10pm from Bangkok arriving after midnight on Friday, and the Sunday detention only as Sunday; 30 October 2026 is used as the incident date by inference from the 9 November publication.
No weight or value is given for two of the four passengers other than Young's 15.7 kg and Thanveer's 10 kg, so the 50 kg and Rs 17 crore are the authorities' totals for the four rather than a sum of stated individual seizures.
The article does not say whether Motiramani was arrested or only caught and questioned; the figure of five detainees counts the four arrested passengers plus him.
No charge under a named law, court appearance, remand decision or plea was reported for any of the five.
No separate Customs statement or second outlet account of this specific five-passenger cluster could be opened, so the figures rest on one newspaper report.
Urban Acres repeats that the supplied report did not clarify whether Motiramani was included in the total seizure figure of more than 50kg or booked in the same case as the four arrested passengers, and gives no charges or court steps.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
