Customs officers at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport arrested two Indian women passengers arriving from Bangkok in two separate ganja-smuggling cases on 30 October 2026.[1][2][3] Both women had arrived at Terminal 3 and were stopped on the basis of passenger profiling.[1][3] Officers diverted them from the Green Channel and searched their baggage.[1][4][3]

In the first case, six polythene packets weighing 6,540 grams were found in the trolley bag of a woman who arrived on flight TG331.[1][4][2][3] Customs valued that load at about Rs 2.29 crore.[1][4][2][3] In the second case, two polythene packets hidden in the bag of a woman who arrived on flight TG315 weighed 2,988.7 grams.[1][5][2][3] Customs put that seizure’s value at about Rs 1.04 crore.[1][5][2][3] Together the two bags held 9,528.7 grams, about 9.5 kg, of suspected ganja.[1][2][3] Preliminary testing confirmed that the substance in both cases was ganja or marijuana.[1][3] Janbhawna Times, an Indian news site, reported the combined estimated value as about Rs 3.33 crore.[6]

Both women were arrested under Section 43(b) of the NDPS Act and the ganja was seized under Section 43(a).[6][4][5][3] The arrests were made under Section 43(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and the seizures under Section 43(a).[1] Customs registered the cases under Sections 8, 20, 23 and 29 of the Act.[1][3] Customs said its investigation in both cases was continuing and that surveillance against drug smuggling at the airport was ongoing.[1][5][2]

The pouches were hidden inside the woman’s grey coloured trolley bag, and her arrest was recorded around 10 am on 30 October.[5]

The Tamil report gives the second seizure’s value as Rs 1.4 crore, while The Tribune gives about Rs 1.04 crore.[2]

The flight carrying the first woman was dated 29 October, a day before she was intercepted, according to the customs release.[3] The details came in separate press releases from the Office of the Commissioner of Customs (Airport and General).[3] The combined estimated value of the two seizures was about Rs 3.33 crore.[3]