Customs officers at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport arrested an Indian woman arriving from Bangkok with 2.99 kg of hydroponic ganja.[1] She arrived at Terminal 3 on 16 October 2026.[2] Officers stopped her at the Green Channel on the basis of passenger profiling and sent her for X-ray screening.[2]

A search of her baggage turned up two polythene pouches holding a green substance weighing 2,996 grams.[2] A diagnostic test indicated prima facie that the substance was ganja or marijuana.[2] Customs estimated the value of the haul at approximately Rs 2.995 crore.[2] The substance was seized under Section 43(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and the woman was arrested under Section 43(b).[2] Customs registered a case under Sections 8, 20, 23 and 29 of the Act.[2]

Customs said further investigations were under way.[2] The same customs statement also covered a separate seizure of five polythene pouches holding 4,918.5 grams from another Indian woman who arrived from Bangkok on 18 October.[2] That second woman was arrested on 19 October under the NDPS Act.[2] Customs put the two seizures together at 7.9145 kg of suspected marijuana with a combined estimated value of Rs 4.795 crore.[2]