Coimbatore police recorded two ganja arrests in Saravanampatti and Race Course cases that were grouped together as two arrests for ganja sale.[1] In Saravanampatti, officers patrolling the Kunninayakkar Thottam area stopped a man who was standing there in a suspicious manner and searched him.[1] The search showed that the man was holding ganja, the local term for cannabis, for sale.[1] Questioning identified him as 28-year-old Rahim Batcha from Nalbari in Assam, who was staying at Chinnavedampatti and working in a laser-cutting company.[1]

Officers lodged Rahim Batcha in jail and seized 1.130 kg of ganja from him in that Saravanampatti catch.[1] In the other catch, Race Course police lodged 29-year-old Sayith from Palakkad in Kerala in jail for possessing ganja.[1] Both catches were reported in Coimbatore, with the quantified seizure coming from Kunninayakkar Thottam in Saravanampatti and the second arrest handled by Race Course police.[1]