Cuddalore police report 292 kg of ganja seized and 502 arrested this year
Cuddalore district police said they had registered 286 narcotics cases, arrested 502 people and seized 292 kg of ganja between January and the end of October. The statement, released on 6 November, counted gutkha and tablets in the same haul, and Dinamani's account added 75 vehicles seized for moving drugs.
Cuddalore district police arrested 502 people in 286 cases registered for the
trafficking and sale of narcotics in 2026, up to the end of October.[1]Officers seized292 kg of ganja, the local term for cannabis, from those
arrested, along with 4,923 kg of gutkha, a banned chewing tobacco, and 4,328
intoxicating tablets.[1]The district police said 292 kg of ganja had been
seized in the district so far this year.[2]
The district police also seized 75 vehicles used to move the drugs, the Dinamani
account of the same statement reported.[1]The figures were released in a
press statement by Cuddalore District Superintendent of Police Vivekanand Shukla
on Friday, 6 November 2026.[1]
The same statement reported 60 people jailed under the Goondas Act, Tamil Nadu’s
preventive-detention law, and life sentences given in murder and POCSO cases,
figures that are not drug seizures.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
502
Cannabis
292 kg
Vehicles confiscated
75
Agency
Cuddalore district police
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (292 kg)
Activity
Trafficking, Sale
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Tamil Nadu
Sources
தினமணிdinamani.comTAகடலூா் மாவட்டத்தில் 60 போ் குண்டா் சட்டத்தில் சிறையில் அடைப்பு: எஸ்.பி. தகவல்
Both outlets reproduce the same district police press statement rather than independent reporting, so the 292 kg and 502 arrests are the police's own totals.
The statement covers January to the end of October 2026, and the outlets give no date for an individual seizure, so 6 November, the release date, is used as the incident date.
No street value, district-wide area or number of plants was published for the 292 kg of ganja.
The 292 kg is a cumulative district total rather than one operation's haul, and it cannot be attributed to particular cases, including the individual Cuddalore cases already in the tracker.
Only the ganja figure is recorded as cannabis; the gutkha and tablet seizures are separate substances and their weights are not counted as cannabis.
No court outcome or charge detail for the 286 cases was published beyond the count of arrests and cases registered.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.