Two held in Anantnag with about 3 kg of bhang powder and 19.6 g of charas
Anantnag police arrested two men in separate checks in Pahalgam and Mattan on 4 November 2026, recovering about 3 kg of bhang powder from one and about 19.6 grams of charas from the other. Police registered an NDPS case at each station and said investigations were under way.
🇮🇳 Hokhar Batkote, Pahalgam and Mattan, Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir · India
Arrested
2
Cannabis
3.0196 kg
Anantnag police arrested two alleged drug peddlers on 4 November 2026 in
separate operations in the district’s Pahalgam and Mattan areas, part of an
anti-narcotics campaign.[1]A team from Pahalgam police station stopped Nazir
Ahmed Chechi, a resident of Gujran Batkote, during naka checking, a roadside
check, in the Hokhar Batkote area.[1]A search recovered about three kilograms
of bhanga (bhang) powder from Chechi, Hindi reports say, while English accounts
from the police statement call the material about 3 kg of Bung Boosa.[1]Police registered FIR No. 102/2026 under Sections 8/20 of the NDPS Act at
Pahalgam police station, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.[2]
In the second operation, a Mattan police station team arrested Burhan Sheraz
Bhat, a resident of Akura, during checking.[1]About 19.6 grams of charas, a
hand-pressed cannabis resin, was recovered from Bhat.[1]Police registered FIR
No. 127/2026 under the NDPS Act at Mattan police station and began
investigating.[1]A police spokesperson said further investigations were under
way in both cases.[3]
The reports give a 4 November 2026 dateline but no separate time for either check.
The Hindi report describes the first recovery as bhang powder (भांग का चूरा) while English accounts call it Bung Boosa, a cannabis leaf-and-stem mixture; no laboratory confirmation of either was published.
The first weight is described as about three kilograms, not an exact laboratory figure.
No value was given for either recovery.
Neither report names a lawyer, court date or custody outcome for the two men.
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