Overview

• Mumbai Customs Zone-III officers arrested four passengers arriving from Bangkok between July 29 and 30 after seizing 8.012 kg of suspected hydroponic cannabis hidden in vacuum-sealed packets inside their luggage.
• Customs officials separately detained 37-year-old Jahanara Shamsi at CSMIA once 19 packets containing around 6 kg of hydroponic weed valued at ₹6 crore were found in her trolley bag, and she admitted smuggling the consignment for a ₹30,000 fee.
• NCB teams recovered 400 kg of hydroponic ganja valued at ₹40 crore from a woman’s check-in luggage at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport; intelligence indicates the contraband came from Bangkok via Dubai.
• Authorities are tracing financial channels, key operatives and concealment methods as investigations remain at a preliminary stage under India’s NDPS Act.
• The seizures reflect a sharp escalation in interdicted consignments—from single-digit kilograms in June to record-breaking multi-hundred-kilogram hauls—driven by an intelligence-led, interagency crackdown.