Latest news with #ScootAirlines
Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Hydroponic weeds worth Rs 3 crore seized from woman passenger at Coimbatore airport
COIMBATORE: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of the customs department seized 3.155 kg of hydroponic weed from a woman passenger who arrived at the Coimbatore International Airport from Bangkok in Thailand via Singapore on a Scoot Airlines flight on Friday night. The AIU received a tip-off about smuggling of hydroponic weed (ganja grown in a water-based and nutrient-rich solution, instead of in soil) to Coimbatore International Airport. The Scoot Airlines flight landed here around 11.16 pm, and AIU officers began checking the baggage of the passengers. A woman passenger hailing from Kerala had six packets of chips in her luggage. The officials opened the packets and found 3.155 kg of hydroponic weed valued at around Rs 3 crore. The officials arrested her. Sources said the woman told the officials that someone had placed the packets in her luggage and she was not aware of the hydroponic weed. Last month, the AIU team seized 5.25 kg of hydroponic weed worth Rs 5 crore from a passenger at the airport here. Many carriers have started smuggling contrabands from Bangkok to the Coimbatore International Airport or the Trichy International Airport via Singapore.
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Time of India
Kerala youth held with 5 crore worth hydroponic weed at Coimbatore airport
Coimbatore: Air intelligence unit (AIU) officers with the customs department on Wednesday night seized 5.25kg of hydroponic weed (ganja) worth Rs5 crore from a passenger at the city airport and arrested a 24-year-old native of Kerala on Thursday for smuggling the same into the country from Bangkok in Thailand. Trichy Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate on Thursday posted a message on its X handle, stating the AIU officers, in coordination with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, nabbed Muhammad Fazil, 24, of Villiappally in Kozhikode district in Kerala, at the Coimbatore airport around 11.30pm on Wednesday with more than 5kg hydroponic ganja based on intelligence inputs from the Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management in Delhi. He arrived at the airport from Bangkok via Singapore by Scoot Airlines. Officials subsequently seized the contraband and arrested Muhammad Fazil under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the customs act. He was produced before the chief judicial magistrate court on Thursday afternoon and remanded in judicial custody. According to police officers, hydroponics is a cultivation method that commonly uses water with added nutrients, rather than soil. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Switch to UnionBank Rewards Card UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo Hydroponics weed is grown indoors in a fully controlled environment. "Mostly, this drug is smuggled from Bangkok in Thailand. Two days ago, the AIU team had arrested a passenger who arrived from Bangkok via Singapore by Scoot Airlines at the Trichy airport with three kilograms of hydroponic weed. On April 23, the AIU arrested another passenger, who travelled from Bangkok via Colombo, at Trichy airport with 9.9kg of hydroponic weed worth almost Rs10 crore. Similar hydroponic weed smuggling cases have been reported from airports located in Kerala and other states in the country," said a senior police officer.
