60-year-old woman held with 10.1 kg ganja in Bhopal's Govindpura
Bhopal Crime Branch arrested 60-year-old Kiran Ahirwar near the Hanuman temple in Govindpura with 10 kg 100 grams of ganja in her bag. Police valued the seizure at about Rs 3 lakh and booked her under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Hanuman temple in front of Kasturba Hospital, Govindpura, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh · India
Bhopal Crime Brancharrested 60-year-old Kiran Ahirwar in the Govindpura area on
Tuesday night on suspicion of ganjatrafficking.[1]She was sitting with a bag
near the Hanuman temple in front of Kasturba Hospital.[1]Police said they had
received a tip that the bag contained ganja and that she was waiting for a
customer to sell it.[1][2]After watching her from a distance and matching her to
the informer’s description, the Crime Branch team cordoned off the spot and
caught her.[1]
Searching the bag, officers found ganja wrapped in transparent plastic, weighing
10 kg100 grams in total.[1]Police put the value of the seized ganja at about
Rs 3 lakh.[1][2]Police identified the woman as Kiran Ahirwar (60), a resident of
Kainchi Chhola in the Chhola Mandir police-station area.[1][2]Police said she
works as a labourer and is illiterate.[1]
Police registered a case against her under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act.[1][2]Police said they were now tracing the ganja supply chain and other people
linked to the network.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
10.1 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 300,000
Agency
Bhopal Crime Branch
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (10.1 kg)
Activity
Sale
Setting
Street or public place
Charge
NDPS Act sections 8/20
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Madhya Pradesh
Sources
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIझोले में 3 लाख का गांजा लेकर बैठी थी महिला:भोपाल में मंदिर के पास से पकड़ाई; होटल के कमरे से MD ड्रग्स के साथ युवक गिरफ्तार
Nai Dunianaidunia.comHIभोपाल में नशे के कारोबार पर क्राइम ब्रांच का एक्शन, लाखों के गांजे और एमडी ड्रग्स के साथ दो गिरफ्तार
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One account gives Tuesday night as the arrest time without a calendar date while another describes the Govindpura action as on Wednesday; 10 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
The Rs 3 lakh figure is the police's estimated value of the seized ganja, not a verified sale price.
No court outcome beyond registration of the NDPS case was reported.
The same articles also describe a separate MD-like seizure from a hotel room in Bagsewania, a different non-cannabis event left out of this cannabis report.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
