Champawat police seize 11.863 kg of charas in ten months, 88 charged
Police in Champawat district registered 65 NDPS cases against 88 accused in the ten months to 27 October 2026 and recovered 11.863 kg of charas, alongside heroin and thousands of pills. Three accused were held under preventive detention and bhang was destroyed on 495 nali of land, a district committee review heard.
🇮🇳 Champawat district, Uttarakhand · India
- Charged
- 88
- Cannabis
- 11.863 kg
Police in Champawat district registered 65 cases under the NDPS Act, India’s
main narcotics law, against 88 accused in the ten months to 27 October 2026.[1][2] The figures were reviewed at a district-level NCORD committee meeting
chaired by District Magistrate Manish Kumar, held under the Drug Free Devbhoomi
resolution’s de-addiction campaign.[3] Three accused were detained under the
PIT-NDPS Act, India’s preventive-detention law for drug trafficking.[3]
Officers recovered 11.863 kg of charas, a cannabis resin, over the same ten
months.[1][2] The haul, recovered from the 88 accused, also included 1.190 kg of
smack, or heroin.[3] Officers seized 445 narcotic injections, 6,254 capsules
and tablets and 10 bottles of syrup.[3] Police also destroyed bhang, cannabis
plants, on 495 nali of land, a local measure.[3]
District Magistrate Manish Kumar also directed departments to coordinate
awareness work and enforcement, increase monitoring and checks in sensitive
areas, jointly inspect medical stores and keep taking firm preventive action
against repeat offenders.[3]
Sources
- Champawat News: दस माह में बरामद की एक किलो से अधिक स्मैक. Hindustan, 30 October 2026. In Hindi.
- Champawat News: दस माह में बरामद की एक किलो से अधिक स्मैक. Hindustan, 30 October 2026. In Hindi.
- Champawat News: नशे पर वार, 65 मुकदमे दर्ज, 88 आरोपी पकड़े गए. Amar Ujala, 29 October 2026. In Hindi.
Open questions the AI reported
- The figures are a district-wide total for the ten months to 27 October 2026, not one raid; the sources give no date for the committee meeting that announced them.
- Amar Ujala's headline says 88 accused were caught, while its text and Hindustan say cases were registered against 88 accused; the report counts them as charged, not arrested.
- The sources do not say how many of the 65 cases or 88 accused involved charas rather than heroin or pills, and give no breakdown of the 11.863 kg of charas by seizure.
- Bhang destruction is given as 495 nali, a local land measure, with no hectare or plant count, so no area or plant figure is recorded.
- The sources do not say whether the three PIT-NDPS detainees are among the 88 accused.
- Both pages carried only a generic default or city image, not a photograph of the seizures, so no media entry is included.
- The Hindustan page gives only the case and seizure totals; the preventive-detention figures and the bhang destruction rest on the Amar Ujala report.
