A woman allegedly bit the hand of a customs official and threw an oval-shaped capsule wrapped in tape into a toilet at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Sunday evening. Following a complaint by an assistant sub-inspector in the customs department, the Sahar police registered a case and arrested the woman.

According to police sources, the complainant works in the airport’s Air Intelligence Unit (AIU). The woman, 42, arrived from Muscat on Sunday on Air India Express flight IX236. A woman customs superintendent found her body language suspicious and asked for her name. Her passport identified her as Dhanalakshmi Shanmugam, residing at 146/34, Nethaji Nagar 2nd Street, Tondiarpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.