Mumbai: Mumbai Airport Customs officers have arrested a 43-year-old woman for allegedly smuggling drugs worth around Rs 1 crore, sourced from Bangkok.

According to the agency sources, on Saturday evening, Customs officers intercepted one passenger Shahinbanu Fakir, a resident of Ahmedabad on the basis of specific intelligence that she might be carrying some contraband items, after she arrived at CSMI Airport, Mumbai from Bangkok.

Examination of her trolley bag resulted in recovery of two plastic packets. On cutting the said packets they were found stuffed with fruiting and flowering top of the plant purported to be hydroponic weed (cannabis) having a strong pungent smell. The said substance weighed 974 grams, having an illicit market value of around Rs 1 crore.

In her statement, she to

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