Budhni police arrested a 43-year-old man from Karnal district, Haryana, who police said was waiting under the Budhni railway overbridge to sell ganja.[1] The man told police he lives in Gondar village in Nissing police-station area of Karnal district, Haryana.[1] Officers searched him and recovered 6.304 kilograms of ganja, which police estimated to be worth about three lakh rupees.[1]

Budhni sub-divisional police officer Ravi Sharma said police received a tip that a man was sitting by the railway track under the overbridge with ganja, and that station house officer Sunil Thakur took a team that surrounded and caught him.[1] The arrest came under a district-wide drive against drug smuggling and sale run on the orders of the police headquarters and led by Sehore superintendent of police Sonakshi Saxena, with additional superintendent Prashant Chaube and Budhni sub-divisional officer Ravi Sharma guiding it.[1]

Budhni police registered crime number 492/2026 under section 8/20 of the NDPS Act, India’s main narcotics law, and took him into custody.[1] Investigators are now trying to establish where the ganja came from and whom in Budhni it was meant to be supplied to.[1]