Mumbai: In two separate cases, the Mumbai Airport Customs officers have arrested two persons, including a woman for allegedly smuggling hydroponic weed collectively valued at Rs 24 crore.

Passenger From Bangkok Intercepted

According to the Customs sources, on Monday the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) officers intercepted one passenger Aswant Kumar (30), a resident of Jalandhar on the basis of suspicion that he might be carrying some contraband items, after he arrived at CSMI Airport, Mumbai from Bangkok.

The officers then examined his check-in-baggage and noticed that the same were filled with 12 packets, stuffed with greenish coloured dry flowering and fruiting substance in lumps form which tested positive for hydroponic weed (marijuana), a substance covered under Narcotic Drugs and Psyc

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