Bengaluru police seize 108 kg of ganja, arrest nine in interstate racket
The Central Crime Branch's narcotics wing seized 108 kg of ganja worth Rs 50 lakh in Bengaluru on 7 April 2018 and arrested nine members of a Kerala-based gang. Police said the gang smuggled the drug from Odisha and sold it in small packs to students across the city.
The Woman and Narcotics Wing of the Central Crime Branchseized108 kg of ganja worth Rs 50 lakh on Saturday and arrested nine people of a Kerala-based gang who were moving the drug into Karnataka and Kerala.[1]Assistant Commissioner of Police Venkatesh Prasanna and his team studied the gang’s entry and exit routes and covered them before making the arrests.[1]
The alleged mastermind, 36-year-old N. Nainesh of Thrissur in Kerala, sourced the cannabis through a Kerala-based dealer from an Odisha-based grower cultivating marijuana on unclaimed land in the Naxal-affected Gajuvaka village near Srikakulam, with at least a quintal smuggled into the city every fortnight.[1]Nainesh operated from a rented house in Eashwar Layout, Indiranagar, whose owner had already asked him to vacate after finding his activities suspicious.[1]The gang divided the drug into packs of eight and ten grams and sold each for Rs 300 to Rs 500 to college students and other buyers in Ejipura, Murugeshpalya, Banaswadi, Hennur, KR Puram, Ramamurthy Nagar and other areas.[1]
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Security guards newly posted at the district hospital in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, are screening patients and their relatives before entry and seized ganja from the pocket of one patient's relative. People caught bringing intoxicants into the hospital are handed over to the hospital police post or fined.
Sonamura police in Tripura seized 14 kg of dry ganja and 249 bottles of Eskuf cough syrup found abandoned along the Srimantapur border road on 13 November 2026. Police valued the haul at about Rs 9.29 lakh and opened an investigation; no one was arrested.
Police in Gajapati district, Odisha, seized 722.4 kg of ganja packed in about 24 bags from a suspect in Dumkuli village on 13 November 2026, as part of a drive to make the district ganja-free. The 59-year-old suspect was arrested, a case registered and he was sent to court, with the investigation still ongoing.
Police seized about 20 kg of ganja from two suspect courier packets at a logistics warehouse near Dhoom Manikpur in Greater Noida. The packets had been booked in Odisha for delivery in Delhi, and police valued the haul at about Rs 10 lakh.
