Customs seize 15 kg of cannabis worth 5.26 crore rupees at Chennai airport
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- On 2 October, customs officials at Chennai International Airport stopped a male passenger arriving from Bangkok who tried to exit through the green channel without declaring his luggage and arrested him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act; they found 26 transparent packets containing dried green‑brown flowers and plant parts suspected to be high‑quality hydroponic cannabis, weighing 15.02 kilograms and valued at about 5.26 crore rupees after testing with a Narcotic Drug Detection Kit.
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