Passenger arrested with 12.285 kg of ganja worth Rs 4.49 crore at Delhi airport
Customs officers at Delhi's IGI Airport arrested an Indian passenger who arrived from Bangkok via Hanoi on 3 November 2026 after finding 20 pouches of suspected ganja in his grey trolley bag. Delhi Customs put the net weight at 12.285 kg, worth about Rs 4.49 crore, and booked a case under the NDPS Act.
Customs officers at Terminal 3 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport
intercepted an Indian passenger arriving from Bangkok via Hanoi on 3 November
2026, acting on profiling.[1][2]The passenger was diverted at the Green Channel
for X-ray screening, followed by a personal and baggage search.[3][2]
Officers recovered 20 polythene pouches containing a green substance suspected
to be ganja (marijuana), concealed inside a grey trolley bag.[1][2]Delhi Customs
put the net weight of the recovered substance at 12.285 kg and its estimated
value at about Rs 4.49 crore.[4][2]
A diagnostic test prima facie indicated that the substance was ganja.[4][2]The
contraband and its packaging were seized under Section 43(a) of the Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and the passenger was
arrested under Section 43(b).[1]A case was booked under Sections 8, 20, 23
and 29 of the Act, and further investigation is under way.[1]
Crime Branch officers in Indore arrested a flower seller with 4.503 kg of ganja near Bhandari Bridge, police said. He was booked under the NDPS Act and questioned about his supply network; eight earlier criminal cases were already registered against him.
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.
