Man arrested with 900 g of ganja in Sant Kabir Nagar
Dhanghata police arrested Amitabh Bachchan near Ranjeet Baba's place in Rampur Dakshini village, seizing 900 grams of illegal ganja from his possession. He was booked under the NDPS Act, produced before the court and remanded to district jail in judicial custody.
🇮🇳 Rampur Dakshini village, Dhanghata, Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh · India
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In Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, Dhanghata police arrested one accused with
900 grams (0.9 kg) of illegal ganja on Tuesday as part of the ongoing campaign
against trafficking of narcotic substances.[1]The accused was identified as
Amitabh Bachchan, son of Ramnath, who is a resident of Nathnagar within the
limits of Mahuli police station.[1]Police registered a first information
report against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at
Dhanghata police station and completed the required legal formalities.[1]Officers produced him before the concerned court, which remanded him to judicial
custody in the district jail.[1]
The operation was led by station in-charge Ajay Kumar Singh, whose team raided
the area near Ranjeet Baba’s place in Rampur Dakshini village.[1]During the
raid the team caught Amitabh Bachchan at the spot and detained him for checking.[1]A search of his possession then recovered 900 grams of illegal ganja, which
police recorded as the seized quantity in this case.[1]Rampur Dakshini
village is the named arrest site, falling under Dhanghata police jurisdiction in
Sant Kabir Nagar district.[1]
The article gives no separate calendar date for the raid; Tuesday coincides with its publication date of 3 November 2026, which is used as the incident date.
No street value for the 900 grams of ganja was published.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Hindi and English.
The page photo is a 2021 file image of Sant Kabir Nagar captioned only with the headline and is not established to show this seizure, so no media entry is included.
No NDPS sections, charge-sheet detail or further court outcome beyond remand to judicial custody was reported.
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Rural Anti-Narcotics Wing officers detained an Uttar Pradesh native near Khirsara Palace in Rajkot with 1.686 kg of ganja. Police valued the ganja at Rs 84,300 and registered a drug case while tracing the intended receiver.
Rajkot Rural LCB arrested 33-year-old Sajid alias Bhikho Tarkwadiya near Ashapura Chowkdi in Gondal, wanted as the alleged ganja supplier in NDPS cases at Gondal B Division and Dhoraji Taluka stations. He was handed to Gondal B Division police; no fresh seizure was reported in this arrest, while police linked him to a July seizure of 5.5 kg of ganja in Gondal.
Gurugram Crime Branch arrested Vedram alias Vedu in Chandigarh after two Sohna men were caught with 203.71 grams of charas. Police say the pair sourced the charas from Himachal Pradesh and that Vedram grew ganja plants in Kullu to prepare and supply narcotics.
