The incident was reported on Friday when intelligence sleuths of CISF in civil clothes spotted the suspicious behaviour of the woman, identified as A Khanjari, arriving from Kabul.
The woman was seen carrying five big bags and soon after landing she entered the washroom in the arrival terminal and came out after changing her clothes, a senior official said.
She was apprehended on suspicion, he said, and later on during frisking, five bags full of foreign brand cigarettes were recovered from her.