Customs officers Sunday arrested two passengers on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide airport for allegedly smuggling 22.39 kg hydroponic weed (marijuana) value Rs 22.39 crore from Bangkok.
Customs division on Monday mentioned that based mostly on passenger profiling, their officers detained two suspects in two totally different instances on the metropolis airport, the place they’d arrived from Bangkok.
In line with officers, they recovered suspected hydroponic weed weighing 8.337 kg from one passenger. The illicit market worth of the recovered contraband is roughly Rs 8.33 crore.
When officers examined the second passenger 14.062 kg of the identical narcotic substance value Rs 14.06 crore was recovered.
“The passengers had hid the contraband in vacuum-sealed packets and inside meals packets saved of their baggage,” a customs official mentioned.
The 2 passengers had been positioned underneath arrest after thorough interrogation. They had been charged with related sections of the Narcotics Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for smuggling industrial amount of medicine.
The customs officers are additional interrogating the 2 accused about their associates and likewise checking how a lot cash they obtained for smuggling the contraband to India.
Investigators are additionally scrutinising their journey historical past to determine if they’d smuggled contraband up to now, one other customs officer mentioned.
