Two held as 9.6 kg of Bangkok ganja seized at Delhi airport
Customs officers at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport arrested two passengers arriving from Bangkok and seized more than 9.6 kg of suspected ganja worth about Rs 3.37 crore in two cases within three days. Officers found 4,229 g in nine pouches on 24 October and 5,426 g in six pouches on 26 October; both were arrested under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Terminal 3, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi · India
Customs officers at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport seized more than
9.6 kg of suspected ganja, valued at about Rs 3.37 crore, from two passengers
arriving from Bangkok in two cases within three days.[1][2][3][4][5]Both passengers were
arrested.[6][2][3][4]The cases were detected on 24 and 26 October 2026 at Terminal 3
after passenger profiling, when the travellers were diverted from the Green
Channel for X-ray screening and a search of their bags.[1][3][4]
In the first case, on 24 October, officers found nine polythene pouches of a
green substance in a trolley bag belonging to a passenger arriving from Bangkok.[1][3][4][5]The substance weighed 4,229 grams and was valued at about Rs 1.48 crore.[1][3][4][5]
The substances tested prima facie positive for ganja or marijuana in both cases.[7][3][4]The contraband was seized under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Act.[6][3][4]Customs said its investigation was in progress.[7]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
9.6 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 33,700,000
Agency type
Customs
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (9.6 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Airport
Case stage
Under investigation
Route
Thailand → India
Sources
ThePrinttheprint.inOver 9.6 kg of suspected ganja worth Rs 3.37 crore seized at Delhi airport
The two cases were detected on 24 and 26 October 2026, so the report is dated at the later seizure rather than a single incident date.
The Tribune rounds the weights to 4.2 kg and 5.4 kg, while PTI and the customs post give 4,229 g and 5,426 g; the exact figures are used here.
No court appearance, remand or charge sheet was reported, and customs said only that its investigation was in progress.
The reports give no names, ages or nationalities for the two passengers.
The Tribune's Rs 3.84 crore total also includes 332 grams of gold worth Rs 47.38 lakh from a separate Sharjah case, left out here.
Neither news page carried a photograph of the seizure: ThePrint used a default image and The Tribune captioned its picture as a representation.
ThePrint keeps the second case behind a "Show Full Article" button; its figures here were confirmed in the customs post and The Tribune.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Tribune: In the second case, on 26 October, six polythene pouches of suspected marijuana were recovered from another passenger's trolley bag.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Delhi Customs (Airport & General): Customs put the second load at 5,426 grams, valued at about Rs 1.89 crore.
The Hindi page is a translation of the same PTI wire story already cited in English, so it corroborates the account but is not an independent source.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.
A joint GRP, RPF and NCB team seized 31.15 kg of ganja in seven packets from a minor carrying two bags on train No. 19484 at Ara Junction. The child was sent to a remand home for production before the Juvenile Justice Board.