Dinhata house owner arrested after police find 130 kg of ganja
Dinhata police raided a house in the Alokjhari gram panchayat area of Dinhata-1 block on 7 March 2025 and recovered 130 kg of ganja. They arrested the owner, Tapas Roy, who police said had stored the drug at the house before smuggling it on.
🇮🇳 Alokjhari, Dinhata-1 block, Cooch Behar, West Bengal · India
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 130 kg
Dinhata police raided a house in the Alokjhari gram panchayat area of Dinhata-1
block, Cooch Behar district, on Friday 7 March 2025, acting on a tip-off.[1]
Officers searched the house and recovered 130 kg of ganja.[1] They arrested
the house owner, Tapas Roy, on a charge of keeping the drug.[1]
The operation was led by Jaydeep Modak, inspector-in-charge of Dinhata police
station.[1] Ganga Chhetri, block development officer of Dinhata-1 block, was
present.[1]
Police said Roy had brought the ganja from various places and stored it at his
house.[1] Police said he later smuggled the drug on.[1] A case was
registered against him under specific sections.[1]
Sources
- Dinhata | দিনহাটায় উদ্ধার বিপুল পরিমাণ গাঁজা, গ্রেপ্তার ১ পাচারকারী. Uttarbanga Sambad, 7 March 2025. In Bangla.
Open questions the AI reported
- Uttarbanga Sambad gives the raid day only as Friday and was last updated on 7 March 2025; the incident is dated to that Friday, with no time of day given.
- No independent second report of the raid or arrest was found; the account rests on Uttarbanga Sambad.
- The report does not name the sections of the case, say whether Roy was produced in court, or give his age.
- It gives no estimated value for the 130 kg of ganja and does not say where it was grown or where it was being sent.
- The coordinates are for Dinhata town, not the Alokjhari house; no exact address is given.