A joint team of Rajpur police and the Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), Uttarakhand’s anti-drug task force, arrested a 19-year-old man with charas in Dehradun on the night of 4 November 2026.[1] The team was checking the Johri Road area and stopped the man near an old shrine on a tip-off, and a search found 1 kg 110 g of charas, the cannabis resin, on him.[1]

Police identified the arrested man as Ashad, also known as Shubhan Khan, 19, a resident of Mothorowala on Dun University Road in Nehru Colony.[1] In questioning he told police he is studying for a degree at an open university and bought the charas from a drug trafficker living near Rispana bridge to sell at high prices to local drug users.[1] Police said he had been jailed before in drug-trafficking and other criminal cases and were gathering details of his criminal history.[1] A first information report was registered against him at Rajpur police station, and police are also seeking information about the trafficker who supplied the charas.[1]