Bengaluru: Four passengers who landed at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) last week were arrested for carrying more than 50kg of hydroponic ganja. The seized substance is estimated to be valued at more than Rs 17 crore.Customs officials at KIA confirmed that all four passengers travelled with separate tickets and did not have any visible links with each other. They boarded Thai Airways flight TG 325 Thursday at 10pm from Bangkok and reached KIA’s Terminal 2 by Friday midnight.The four are Badruddin Ansari (45), native of West Bengal; Ketan (22), from Jind, Haryana; Stephen Young (49), a resident of Kolkata; Thanveer Khan, a native of Nanjangud in Mysuru district. Among them, Young carried the largest amount of ganja (15.7kg) in his check-in baggage; customs estimate the contraband to be valued at Rs 5.5 crore. Thanveer carried the lowest amount, 10kg, worth around Rs 3.5 crore.On Sunday, Shyam Motiramani (44), a native of Bhavnagar in Gujarat, who arrived on the same flight, was caught with 9kg of weed.
