35 held in Gautam Buddh Nagar drive; 3.45 kg ganja seized
Gautam Buddh Nagar police arrested 35 people in an overnight special drive across many station areas, recovering liquor, knives and ganja. Four of the detentions yielded about 3.45 kg of ganja, including 600 g, 700 g, 900 g and about 1.25 kg from a juvenile.
🇮🇳 Gautam Buddh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh · India
Gautam Buddh Nagar police ran a special drive against the sale of intoxicants
and illegal weapons across the district’s police-station areas.[1]The drive
led to 35 accused being arrested with illegal liquor, ganja and knives.[1]Police said different station teams carried out the action the previous night on
the basis of specific informer tips.[1]
In Sector-63, in an action against drug trafficking, police arrested Shiv Kumar
with 600 grams of ganja and Sunil alias Kasim with 700 grams of ganja.[1]In
Sector-49, police caught Sujit Kumar with 900 grams of ganja.[1]In Sector-24,
police caught a juvenile with sava kilo of ganja, about 1.25 kilograms.[1]Here ganja means cannabis flower, thana means police station and bal apchari
means a juvenile, and the four itemised cannabis seizures total about 3.45
kilograms.[1]
Apart from the ganja cases, the same drive reported recoveries of large
quantities of country and English liquor, measured in pavve, pouches and
bottles, and of illegal knives from those arrested.[1]Police said required
legal action was being taken against all the accused in the relevant cases.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
35
Cannabis
3.45 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (3.45 kg)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Region
Uttar Pradesh
Date
Approximate
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The article published on 12 November 2026 says the action took place the previous night, so 11 November 2026 is used as the approximate incident date.
The 3.45 kg total is the sum of the four itemised ganja amounts of 600 g, 700 g, 900 g and sava kilo; the source gives no combined ganja total and no value.
Sava kilo is taken as about 1.25 kilograms, the usual meaning of the Hindi term.
The 35 arrests cover liquor, knife and ganja cases together; only four cannabis detentions are individually itemised.
Liquor amounts are given in pavve, pouches and bottles, which cannot be converted to litres, and are not counted as cannabis.
No NDPS sections, case numbers, remand order or court outcome were reported.
No ages or occupations were given for the adult ganja suspects, and the juvenile was not named.
Only one accessible account of this drive was found after searching in Hindi and English.
Police in Pazhayangadi, Kannur district, arrested a 25-year-old worker from West Bengal, Biswajit Mandal, and seized 1.106 kg of ganja from him. A DANSAF team under the Kannur City Police Commissioner made the arrest in the early hours of 12 November 2026 near the Amayi level crossing.
Excise officials in Karimnagar town, Telangana, raided the Kothirapur area and arrested two people, Ghasiram and Lakshmi, on suspicion of selling ganja, seizing 530 grams of the drug. The operation was led by Circle Inspector Lobanand on the orders of the Assistant Commissioner of Enforcement, and the accounts report no charge or court outcome.
Police on patrol near the Tsunami Nagar burial ground in Devanampattinam detained 24-year-old Akash and seized ganja found in his possession. Questioning showed he had tried to sell the drug, and police registered a case and arrested him.
Panvel city police raided a flat in the MMRDA colony at Palaspe Phata after a tip-off and found 4.255 kg of ganja hidden in its bathroom, arresting Siddharth Ramdas More, 41. Officers also seized an electronic weighing scale, plastic pouches, a stapler and pins, and put the ganja's value at Rs 2,12,700.
