Ahmedabad city police arrest 286 in 188 NDPS cases in 10 months
Ahmedabad city police registered 188 cases under India's main narcotics law in the first ten months of 2026, arrested 286 people and valued the seized drugs at more than Rs 42 crore. Police put the case count 240 per cent above the same period of 2025, when 55 cases, 90 arrests and Rs 4.45 crore in seized property were recorded.
🇮🇳 Ahmedabad, Gujarat · India
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Arrested
286
Agencies
Ahmedabad city police, Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch +2
Ahmedabad city police registered 188 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act, India’s main narcotics law, in the first ten months
of 2026 and arrested 286 people in them.[1][2]Police valued the drugs seized
across those cases at more than Rs 42 crore.[3][2]Local police stations, the
crime branch, the Special Operations Group and the anti-narcotics cells carried
out the action together.[1]The city’s NDPS caseload was 240 per cent higher
than in 2025, when 55 cases were registered, 90 people arrested and property
worth Rs 4.45 crore seized by October.[1]
The SOG seized hybrid cannabis worth more than Rs 7 crore in a single case, and
a joint operation with the Surat crime branch, acting on its information, seized
drugs worth more than Rs 25 crore.[1]Police identified hybrid cannabis supply
points around SG Highway, Sindhu Bhavan Road, Vastrapur, Bodakdev and the
university area, including nearby cafes, farmhouses and paying-guest lodgings.[1]Domestic ganja, opium and charas were described as supplied from Juhapura,
Sarkhej, Dani Limda, Bapunagar, Naroda Ring Road, Ramol, Kalupur and the Kot
area.[1]
Police said rehabilitation work was under way for more than 200 people who use
drugs, alongside 102 awareness programmes held this year.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
286
Value (official estimate)
INR 420,000,000
Agencies
Ahmedabad city police; Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch; Special Operations Group (SOG); anti-narcotics cells
Agency type
Police, Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Setting
Street or public place, Shop, Home, Other building
The article gives no separate date for the tally; 6 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The Rs 42 crore valuation, the 286 arrests and the 188 cases cover all narcotics, not cannabis alone, and no cannabis-only share was published.
No cannabis-only weight or plant count for Ahmedabad city was published; the article names hybrid ganja and domestic ganja among the drugs but gives no quantity for them here.
The 240 per cent increase and the 2025 comparison cover NDPS cases generally, not cannabis cases.
The separate lines on the SOG's Rs 7 crore hybrid ganja case, the joint operation with Surat crime branch, Gujarat police's Rs 3,000 crore statewide seizure and the supply-point descriptions are background from the same article and are not counted in this report's figures.
No charges, convictions or court outcomes for the 188 cases were reported.
The preview text of this page carries only the aggregate ten-month tally and does not state the period's start or end month.
No cannabis-only weight, plant count or number of cannabis cases was visible on this page, so the tally remains unseparated from other narcotics.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.
A joint GRP, RPF and NCB team seized 31.15 kg of ganja in seven packets from a minor carrying two bags on train No. 19484 at Ara Junction. The child was sent to a remand home for production before the Juvenile Justice Board.