Bangkok flyer held at Chennai airport with 4 kg hydroponic ganja
Chennai Customs arrested a male passenger arriving from Bangkok on 12 November 2026 after finding 4 kg of hydroponic ganja hidden in his suitcase. The cannabis was valued at about Rs 1.4 crore and the passenger was remanded in judicial custody.
🇮🇳 Chennai International Airport, Chennai, Tamil Nadu · India
Chennai Customs’ Air Intelligence Unit intercepted a male passenger who arrived
in Chennai from Bangkok on 12 November 2026.[1][2]Officers had flagged him
through profiling and stopped him as he tried to exit through the Green Channel
with the contraband hidden in a false-bottom compartment of his checked-in
trolley suitcase.[1][2]The passenger was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act and remanded in judicial custody.[1][2]
Officers seized4 kg of hydroponically cultivated ganja from his baggage.[1][2]Customs valued the seized cannabis at about Rs 1.4 crore in the illicit market.[1][2]
After the seizure, Chennai Customs cautioned young people against smuggling
syndicates that fund foreign travel in exchange for carrying unknown baggage
into India.[1]Officials described the cannabis interception as one of two
separate operations in Chennai that together were put at Rs 2.4 crore with four
arrests.[1][2]The same account reports a separate Narcotics Control Bureau
seizure of 50 kg of pseudoephedrine from a plastic manufacturing unit in MKB
Nagar on the same day, which is left out of the cannabis figures here.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
4 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 14,000,000
Agency type
Customs
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (4 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Airport
Grown
Indoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Tamil Nadu
Route
Thailand → India
Sources
Rediffrediff.comMajor Drug Haul In Chennai: Rs 2.4 Crore Worth Of Contraband Seized
MSNmsn.comDrugs, precursor chemicals worth Rs 2.4 crore seized in Chennai; four arrested
Open questions the AI reported
The passenger was not named and no court outcome beyond remand in judicial custody was reported.
The weight and value are the authorities' figures as republished; no second independent account of this 4 kg seizure was opened.
The combined Rs 2.4 crore total and three of the four arrests belong to the separate precursor-chemical seizure and are excluded from the cannabis figures.
Goa Anti-Narcotic Police raided Ashwem-Mandrem early on 13 November 2026 and arrested 28-year-old Rohan Panchal with suspected LSD and ganja. Officers seized 114.16 grams of dried ganja valued at about Rs 11,400, alongside 24 LSD blotters, in a case now under investigation.
DANSAF and Kunnamangalam police arrested two men near Padanilam bridge in Kozhikode and seized 4.11 kg of suspected ganja from their car. Both accused were out on bail in earlier narcotics cases and police said the haul was meant for retail sale.
Anantnag police in Jammu and Kashmir arrested two men in separate operations at Krad and Bijbehara, recovering 4.542 kg of cannabis powder at Krad and 4 grams of heroin at a Bijbehara checkpoint. An FIR under Sections 8/20 of the NDPS Act was registered at Uttrasoo police station.
Kerala excise officers in Alakode arrested a 27-year-old man from Parashinikadavu and seized 50 grams of cannabis on a Honda Unicorn bike during a vehicle check on the Naduvil-Tavukkunnu slope, taking the bike with them. He was a repeat offender, with earlier drug cases against him at the Thaliparamba excise office and the police station.
