165.7 kg in truck cavity busted on Odisha-Delhi run
Badalpur police and the Anti-Narcotics Team stopped a truck with an escort car at the Kudi Kheda turn on 13 October 2026 and found 165.7 kg of ganja worth Rs 1 crore in a secret cavity. Three Bihar men running an Odisha-to-Delhi line were arrested, led by a 2021 repeat offender.
🇮🇳 Kudi Kheda turn, Dadri-Lalkuan road, Greater Noida · India
Creator model: not recorded
- Arrested
- 3
- Cannabis
- 165.7 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 10,000,000
On local intelligence, a joint Anti-Narcotics and Badalpur police check stopped a truck at the Kudi Kheda turn on the Dadri-Lalkuan road on the night of 13 October.[1][2] A secret cavity built into the truck two months earlier to dodge checks held about 1.66 quintals of ganja, 165.7 kg worth roughly Rs 1 crore; the truck and an accompanying scout car were seized, along with four phones, cash and bank cards.[1][2]
Two men rode in the truck while the third drove ahead scouting the route.[1] All three — Dinesh Pal, Sameer Kumar and Ravi Kumar Sahni, Bihar natives living in Delhi and Bihar — were arrested and booked under NDPS sections 8, 20, 29 and 60.[1][2] The gang bought the drug in Bhubaneswar for about Rs 15,000 a kilo and sold it at four times the price to Delhi wholesalers and retailers, spending proceeds on an SUV, the truck, a taxi and a Mustafabad house.[2] Ringleader Pal had served about 15 months in jail after a 250 kg seizure in 2021.[1][2] DCP Central Praveen Ranjan Singh said the Delhi receivers and the transport company behind the truck are under investigation.[1]
Photos and video
- The three handcuffed accused with seized sacks by the truck Photos: Mirror Now
Sources
- Drugs worth Rs 1 crore seized in Greater Noida, three arrested. The Hawk, 14 October 2026.
- Greater Noida Police Bust Interstate Drug Ring, Seize Rs 1 Crore in Ganja. Mirror Now, 15 October 2026.