Customs officers at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport arrested two passengers and the man waiting outside to receive their consignment.[1] The three individuals were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.[1] Investigators said the case pointed to an international drug trafficking syndicate and that they were tracing the network.[1]

Officers acting on specific intelligence stopped two passengers who had arrived from Bangkok on Wednesday 18 June 2025.[1] A search of their luggage found high-grade cannabis grown hydroponically, without soil, packed in vacuum-sealed packages.[1] Officers seized 24.96 kilograms of the cannabis.[1] Customs estimated its illicit market value at Rs 24.66 crore, about Rs 25 crore.[1] That consignment of a total of 24.96 kg was worth Rs 24.66 crore in the illicit market.[2]

Interrogation of the two passengers led officers to the third man waiting outside the airport to collect the consignment, and he too was apprehended.[3]

It was the third case that month of passengers smuggling cannabis from Thailand into Mumbai.[1] Earlier that month customs at the same airport arrested three Indian nationals in two separate cases with more than eight kilograms, 8.6 kg, of cannabis brought from Thailand.[1]