NCB seizes 628 kg of ganja hidden under rice bran in Bemetara, arrests five
The NCB's Indore team seized 628.42 kg of ganja hidden under rice-bran sacks in a truck at a dhaba in Bemetara district on 15 February 2024, arresting five people. The consignment had come from Sonepur district in Odisha and was bound for Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh.
🇮🇳 Dhaba on Bemetara–Simga Road, Bemetara district, Chhattisgarh · India
Five people were arrested when the Indore zonal team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
intercepted a truck at a dhaba on the Bemetara–Simga Road in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district
on 15 February 2024.[1][2]Officers searching the truck found 628.42 kg of ganja hidden
underneath sacks of rice bran used to conceal the contraband.[1][2]
An interstate network
The team also seized the truck along with a car that had been escorting the consignment.[1][2]The ganja had been sourced from Sonepur district in Odisha and was destined for Sagar district
in Madhya Pradesh, according to the NCB release.[1][2]
Zonal director Ritesh Ranjan said it was the third major ganja seizure by the Indore unit in
the last 15 days of 2024.[1][2]
Case data
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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.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.
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.