Bhopal division police seize 426.80 kg of ganja, 249 accused in 134 cases
Police and related departments in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal division seized 426.80 kg of ganja and registered 134 NDPS Act cases against 249 accused, Commissioner Karmaveer Sharma said. Rajgarh district accounted for the largest share at 241.106 kg, and officers also uprooted 22 ganja plants in Vidisha.
🇮🇳 Bhopal division (Bhopal Rural, Sehore, Rajgarh, Vidisha and Raisen districts), Madhya Pradesh · India
Police and related departments in the Bhopal division of Madhya Pradesh seized426.80 kg of ganja, the local word for cannabis, in a campaign against the
illegal drug trade.[1][2][3]Officers registered 134 cases under the NDPS Act,
India’s main drug law, and took action against 249 accused people.[1][2][3]Commissioner Karmaveer Sharma said the campaign was being run continuously in
coordination with all the departments concerned.[1][3]
Rajgarh district accounted for the largest share, with 241.106 kg of ganja
seized.[1][2][3]Police seized 117.718 kg in Vidisha, 42.411 kg in Sehore, 15.295 kg
in Raisen and 10.273 kg in Bhopal Rural.[1][2][3]Officers also recovered 22 ganja
plants in Vidisha district.[1]
The commissioner said the actions against those involved in the illegal drug
trade were strict.[1]
Dainik Bhaskar reported that the action was taken in five districts of the
division, Bhopal Rural, Sehore, Rajgarh, Vidisha and Raisen.[4]
Commissioner Sharma said the figure came from action in recent days.[4]
Dainik Bhaskar reported that the 22 ganja plants were uprooted in Vidisha
district and seized.[4][2]
The commissioner directed officials in all districts to run campaigns against
the manufacture, sale and transport of drugs and illegal liquor.[4]Sharma
also ordered that anti-drug committees be formed in all schools, colleges,
universities and hostels of the division.[4]
Dainik Jagran added the five district figures to 426.765 kg, the total it reports as about 426.80 kg.[2]
Commissioner Sharma directed that the NDPS Act and the National Security Act (Rasuka) be used for strict action in such cases.[3]The commissioner ordered inspections of the de-addiction centres run in the districts.[3]The Rajgarh collector told the meeting that the district currently has no de-addiction centre, and the commissioner ordered the social justice department to act quickly on a proposal to open one there.[3]
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A file photo published with the Nai Dunia report on the Bhopal division ganja figures; the page labels it only as a file photo.Photo details
Haribhoomiharibhoomi.comHIभोपाल संभाग में नशे के कारोबार पर पुलिस का प्रहार: 426.80 किलो गांजा जब्त, 249 लोगों पर कार्रवाई
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIभोपाल संभाग में 426.80 किलो गांजा जब्त:राजगढ़ में सबसे ज्यादा 241 किलो मिला; 249 लोगों पर कार्रवाई
Open questions the AI reported
Neither account gives a date for the individual operations or the period they cover; both were published on 7 November 2026, which is used as the incident date.
The Nai Dunia report labels its picture a file photo, so the image is linked rather than treated as a photo of this seizure.
Neither account names the individual cases or the 249 accused, and neither says how many people were arrested rather than merely named in the 134 cases; the 249 are recorded together as people actioned.
No court outcome or value for the seized ganja was published.
Both accounts repeat the same briefing by the commissioner and give no separate departmental statement to check the figures.
Dainik Bhaskar says the 22 ganja plants were uprooted while Nai Dunia says they were recovered; the exact action is not clear.
The report gives no date for the individual operations or the period they cover; 7 November 2026, its publication date, is not a stated incident date.
Dainik Jagran's five district figures add up to 426.765 kg while it headlines 426.80 kg; the earlier reports use the more precise figures 241.106, 117.718, 42.411, 15.295 and 10.273 kg, which the report keeps.
Haribhoomi gives an assessment of the seized share by district but no date for the individual operations; 7 November 2026, its publication date, is used as the incident date.
Haribhoomi does not say how many of the 249 people were arrested rather than named as accused in the 134 cases.
The page's main picture is labelled an AI image (एआई इमेज), so it is not a photograph of the seizure.
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.