Two held with 10 kg of ganja at Cholavaram tollgate
Prohibition enforcement police arrested two young men at Cholavaram tollgate near Minjur after finding 10 kg of ganja in their bags. Police said the pair had smuggled the cannabis from the Rayavada area of Andhra Pradesh for sale in Cuddalore district.
🇮🇳 Cholavaram tollgate, Thiruvallur · India
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Cannabis
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Prohibition enforcement police in the Minjur area arrested two men on 4 November
2026 for allegedly smuggling 10 kg of cannabis from Andhra Pradesh into Tamil
Nadu.[1]One of the men was identified as 21-year-old Indrajith of Sadapalayam
in Cuddalore district.[1]The other was identified as 19-year-old Vishwa of
Vanniyapuram.[1]
A search of the bags they were carrying found packets containing 10 kg of ganja.[1]Officers then arrested both men and seized the ganja packets.[1]Investigators said the load had been smuggled from the Rayavada area of Andhra
Pradesh.[1]Police said the consignment was intended for sale in Cuddalore
district.[1]
The Red Hills prohibition enforcement unit said it had intensified monitoring to
block cannabis smuggling from Andhra Pradesh and northern states.[1]The case
was reported from Minjur on 4 November 2026.[1]
The article dates the arrest to today 4 November 2026 but says the tollgate stop was yesterday, so 4 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
No charges, custody remand or court outcome beyond the arrest were reported.
The transliterated origin Rayavada is as published and its precise town or district was not clarified.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English and Tamil.
No photo of this seizure was published because the page images are unrelated sidebar thumbnails, so no media entry is included.
The 8 kg Chengalpattu seizure linked as related reading is a separate event left out here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dinamalar: Officers on surveillance duty at the Cholavaram tollgate area stopped the pair after finding them moving about suspiciously and questioned them.
Itarsi police and the RPF arrested 35-year-old Ramkumar Thakur near the Nagpur-Mumbai railway track on 4 November 2026, seizing 8.4 kg of ganja from a black backpack. Police valued the seizure at about 150,000 rupees and registered an offence against him.
Peddapalli rural police detained Hyderabad resident Pakala Lokesh on the outskirts of Raghavapur village, seizing 1 kg 161 g of ganja police valued at about Rs 58,050. Police said he had brought the cannabis to sell to migrant labourers, and a case was registered for investigation.
Palakurthi police detained two youths caught consuming ganja after confirmation tests came back positive. A magistrate directed both to the Jangaon de-addiction centre for 15 days.
Birra police arrested fugitive Narayan Rana in Odisha for allegedly supplying 26.8 kg of ganja seized near Basantpur on 1 August 2026, when four couriers were detained. Police valued the ganja at about Rs 13.40 lakh and registered the case under the NDPS Act.
