Melamine containing large amount of nitrogen may be deliberately added to milk in order to increase the protein content for economic adulteration in food stuffs. High performance thin layer chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPTLC-MS)-based method of quantification of melamine has been developed using Silica gel 60 F 254s HPTLC plates, with optimized mobile phase iso-propanol/dichloromethane/water, 5:2.5:3, v/v/v in a twin trough chamber saturated (5 min) at pH 6.8. Validation was carried out by testing its specificity, linearity (1-50 μg), accuracy (95.908-98.369%), inter-and intraday precision (1.578 and 1.670%), respectively, limits of detection (2.688 ng) and quantification (8.146 ng). HPTLC in combination with MS has been found suitable for routine analysis of melamine added as adulterant to market-purchased milk samples.