Four, one a woman, jailed 12 years each over 37 kg ganja haul in Avinashi
A special NDPS court in Coimbatore sentenced four people, one of them a woman, to 12 years in prison each and fined them Rs 1 lakh each on 11 November 2026 for smuggling 37 kg of ganja. Avinashi police had seized the cannabis in four bags near a lorry stand in February 2024 after the four dropped them and fled.
🇮🇳 Avinashi, Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu · India
The special court for narcotic drugs cases in Coimbatore delivered its verdict
on 11 November 2026.[1]Judge Rajalingam sentenced each of the four convicted
people to 12 years in prison and fined each of them Rs 1 lakh.[1]One of the
four people sentenced was a woman.[2]Special public prosecutor Vishnuchithar
appeared for the government side.[1]
Avinashi police in Tiruppur district were on patrol on 19 February 2024.[1]The four bags held 37 kg of ganja.[1]Avinashi police arrested the four after
finding them hiding near a tea shop.[2]
The four were aged 37, 28, 24 and 37 and came from the Murshidabad area of West
Bengal.[1]They had brought the ganja to supply it in the Avinashi area.[1]Police said they had smuggled the ganja by train from the northern states and
planned to distribute it in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur areas.[2]Police
submitted the seized ganja and CCTV footage as evidence to the court.[2]The
four sentenced people are lodged in Coimbatore Central Prison.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Dinamalar published its report on 12 November 2026 and described the verdict as delivered yesterday, so 11 November 2026 is used as the verdict date.
The two accounts spell the four names differently, with Dinamalar's Tamil spellings differing from the second account's Piaraul Sheikh, Shakil Mustaq, Humayoun Sheikh and Nargis Bibi.
Neither account names the sections of the NDPS Act or the specific charges on which the four were convicted.
No street or wholesale value was given for the 37 kg of ganja.
Neither account says whether the four appealed against the sentence or how long they had already spent in custody since the February 2024 arrest.
The sources say the ganja was brought by train from the northern states but name no origin state, boarding point or carrier.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in தினமலர் (Dinamalar): When officers reached the area near the lorry stand, four people standing there dropped the sacks they were holding and fled.
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