Bhopal Crime Branch arrests one, seizes 7.54 kg of ganja from Odisha
Bhopal's Crime Branch arrested 30-year-old Ranjeet Sen at a closed petrol pump near Subhash Nagar bridge and seized eight packets of ganja weighing 7.540 kg, valued with his mobile phone at about Rs 1.6 lakh. Police said Sen bought the ganja cheaply in Odisha and sold it in Bhopal's Chhola Mandir and Nishatpura areas, and booked him under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Closed petrol pump near Subhash Nagar bridge, MP Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh · India
Bhopal’s Crime Branch caught a man accused of supplying ganja in the city and
seized7.540 kg of it from him at a closed petrol pump near Subhash Nagar bridge
in MP Nagar.[1]Police identified the man as 30-year-old Ranjeet Sen, a
resident of Barkhedi Ekta Chowk in the Jehangirabad police-station area of
Bhopal.[1]The plastic sack he was carrying held eight brown packets of ganja,
weighed together at 7.540 kg.[1]Officers also seized an Android mobile phone
from him.[1]Police valued the ganja and the phone together at about Rs 1.6
lakh.[1]The team acted on a tip-off and found him at the closed petrol pump,
where it matched him to the informer’s description before searching him.[1]
Sen told police he bought ganja cheaply in Odisha, India’s neighbouring eastern
state, and sold it at higher prices in the Chhola Mandir and Nishatpura areas of
Bhopal.[1]Police said his trade was making glassware.[2]He had an earlier
case at Gautam Nagar police station registered in 2024 under sections 294, 323,
327 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, a fighting offence rather than a drugs
offence.[2]
Police registered a case against him under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act,
India’s main anti-drug law.[1]Officers said they were still investigating the
wider supply chain and possible accomplices.[1]The Crime Branch said it had
seized 258.441 kg of ganja from 48 accused people in Bhopal during 2025.[1]
Photos and video
Photo captioned as the seizure made by the Crime Branch team in the Subhash Nagar bridge operation, showing the recovered ganja packets and mobile phone. The page gives no separate photo credit.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
7.54 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 160,000
Agency
Bhopal Crime Branch
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (7.54 kg)
Activity
Trafficking, Sale
Setting
Street or public place
Charge
NDPS Act sections 8/20
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Madhya Pradesh
Route
India → India
Sources
Bhaskar Englishbhaskarenglish.inBhopal crime branch nabs inter-state drug peddler: Seizes cannabis, cell phone collectively valued at Rs 1.6L; accused sourced the narcotics from Odisha
Commissionerate of Police Bhopalbhopal.mppolice.gov.inHIनशे के विरुद्ध भोपाल पुलिस कार्यवाही जारी, क्राइम ब्रांच भोपाल ने एक गांजा तस्कर को किया गिरफ्तार, 7.540 kg गांजा, एक मोबाईल फोन जप्त, कुल कीमती लगभग 1 लाख 60 हजार रुपये
Open questions the AI reported
The article says the arrest was on Tuesday and was published on 9 September 2025, a Tuesday, but gives no separate date for the operation.
The Rs 1.6 lakh is the police's combined estimate for the ganja and the mobile phone, not a separate valuation of the 7.540 kg.
The accused's prior case under sections 294, 323, 327 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code was registered in 2024 at Gautam Nagar police station and concerned causing hurt, not drugs.
No charge sheet, custody decision or court outcome beyond registration of the NDPS case was reported.
No second news outlet for this arrest could be opened; the corroborating account is the police's own press release, which appears to be the source of the Bhaskar English report.
The Hindi article at the matching Dainik Bhaskar article address returned a 404 error, so only the police release and the English page were used.
The police release names the mobile phone brand and the team members, while the English report gives no team names.
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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.
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