Officers of the Air Intelligence Unit intercepted passenger B.S. Nathani after he arrived at CSMI Airport in Mumbai on Sunday from Bangkok on the basis of spot profiling for contraband.[1] Mumbai Airport Customs then arrested Nathani, a 19-year-old Ulhasnagar resident, for allegedly possessing drugs sourced from Bangkok.[1] Nathani was placed under arrest.[1] His defence counsel, Advocate Sunil Pandey, said Nathani is a student who was influenced by a woman in Bangkok and induced to carry a package to someone known to her in India without knowing its contents.[1] Pandey said the court granted Nathani bail.[1]

Customs officers searched Nathani’s backpack and found clothes and one food packet that held two plastic packets.[1] Those packets contained marijuana described as hydroponic weed and weighing 960 grams.[1]

The accused claimed a woman he befriended in Bangkok had asked for his help delivering her package to her relative in Mumbai and said he did not know what was inside.[1] A Customs officer said the preliminary investigation pointed to other persons who had yet to be traced and that efforts were being made to identify and apprehend key associates.[1]