Chennai, Oct. 5 -- Officials of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) have seized 15.02 kg of Hydroponic ganja (Cannabis) worth Rs 5.26 crores and arrested a passenger who arrived from Bangkok at the Chennai international airport here.
A PIB release said based on passenger profiling, AIU officers intercepted a male passenger, who arrived from Bangkok, when he attempted to exit through the Green Channel without making any declaration to Customs.
Upon detailed examination of his checked-in baggage, 26 transparent airtight packets containing dried greenish-brown flowering and fruiting tops of a plant,suspected to be high-grade hydroponically cultivated Cannabis (Ganja), were recovered. The packets were ingeniously concealed inside Thai foo...