Two Bangkok flyers held with 25 kg of hydroponic weed at Delhi and Calicut
DRI officers intercepted two passengers arriving from Bangkok in separate operations at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport and Calicut International Airport, seizing about 25 kg of hydroponic weed and arresting both. The two cases were part of a week of pan-India DRI operations in which 20 people, including five foreign nationals, were arrested.
🇮🇳 Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, and Calicut International Airport · India
Officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, India’s customs
intelligence agency, intercepted two passengers in separate operations at Indira
Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi and Calicut International Airport.[1]Both passengers had travelled from Bangkok, and about 25 kg of hydroponic
weed was seized from them.[1]Both passengers were arrested.[1]One of the
two passengers was a foreign national.[1]
The two airport arrests were part of a week of DRI operations across India in
which the agency arrested 20 people, five of them foreign nationals.[1]Those
operations also seized foreign-origin gold, heroin, MDMA, red sanders, wildlife
products, e-cigarettes, poppy seeds and areca nuts.[1]The release gives no
weight for each of the two weed seizures, no value for them and no date for the
interceptions.[1]
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Packets of hydroponic weed seized from the Bangkok passengers, captioned 'Hydroponic weed' in the ministry release. Photo: Press Information BureauPhoto details
Press Information Bureaupib.gov.inDRI seizes quantities of gold; drugs, e-cigarettes and other contraband in pan-India Ops; 20 persons, including 5 foreign nationals, arrested
Open questions the AI reported
The release gives no date for the two airport interceptions and no split of the 25 kg between the Delhi and Calicut cases; 1 August 2026 is the release's publication date and stands in for the incident date.
The release gives no value for the hydroponic weed seized and does not say whether the substance was tested to confirm it was cannabis.
The release does not say which of the two passengers was the foreign national, their nationality, or how the weed was concealed.
No charge sheet, court appearance or further court step was reported for either passenger.
Only one opened source for these two seizures was found; searches in English did not find another outlet reporting them.
The release's overall figure of 20 arrests and five foreign nationals covers all of its operations that week and is not used in this report's figures.
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