Overview
- Ahmedabad Air Intelligence Unit officers intercepted a passenger arriving from Ho Chi Minh City and recovered seven vacuum-sealed packets weighing about 2.117 kg, and arrested the traveller and a 21-year-old who had come to receive him.
- Bengaluru Customs seized a total of 27.6 kg of hydroponic ganja from two passengers arriving from Bangkok, valued at about Rs 9.67 crore, and arrested both individuals under the NDPS Act.
- Preliminary testing by Forensic Science Laboratory officers indicated the Ahmedabad packets contained active marijuana compounds and officials described the Bengaluru seizures as hydroponic ganja.
- Investigators say WhatsApp chats and recovered communications link the airport pickups to coordinators based overseas, and probes are ongoing to map the wider cross-border trafficking network and assign legal culpability.
- Customs and air-intelligence units say these cases follow several recent airport interceptions from Southeast Asia and signal stepped-up screening, forensic checks and NDPS prosecutions at major Indian airports.