One held as Handwara police find charas-like substance in a tipper dashboard
Handwara police stopped a tipper at Batagund during the night of 6–7 November 2026 and found a charas-like substance hidden inside its dashboard. They arrested the driver, seized the tipper and registered an NDPS case at Police Station Qalamabad; no weight was published.
🇮🇳 Batagund, Handwara, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir · India
Handwara police stopped a tipper bearing registration number JK05B-5479 at
Batagund during a naka checking operation in the night between 6 and 7 November
2026.[1]A search of the vehicle found a charas-like substance concealed
inside its dashboard.[1]
The driver, Irshad Ahmad Dar of Shanoo Langate, was travelling from Handwara
towards Qalamabad and was arrested at the scene, while the tipper was seized.[1]Police said the accused was arrested on the spot and the vehicle was seized
as part of the investigation.[1]
Police registered FIR No. 78/2026 at Police Station Qalamabad under Sections
8/20 of the NDPS Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, which
punishes possession of cannabis products such as charas.[1]Police said
further investigation was under way to establish the source and intended
destination of the substance.[1]
Handwara Police restated its commitment to fighting drug trafficking and asked
residents to pass on information about drug-related activity.[1]Police said
public cooperation was needed to protect young people from narcotics.[1]
Photos and video
The page picture published with the capture of the tipper and its driver at Batagund, carrying the headline caption; no credit is given and its content is not described.Photo details
No weight, value or packaging detail for the charas-like substance was published, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The recovery is described only as a charas-like substance; no forensic confirmation of its composition is reported.
The police statement gives no separate time beyond the night between 6 and 7 November 2026; 7 November 2026, the date of the statement and its publication, is used as the incident date.
No bail decision, charge sheet or court date is reported; the case stands at FIR registration with investigation under way.
Only one accessible account of this Batagund stop was found; the same police statement circulates on social media pages but no second outlet article could be opened.
The page picture carries the headline as its caption, no credit and no description, so it is not established to show the tipper or the seizure.
Two other FIR 78/2026 references appear in circulating Handwara police statements — one at Police Station Kralgund from 6 November 2026, recorded in a separate report — so the case number alone does not identify this FIR.
The other images on the page are advertisements or pictures of other stories and no distinct photo of this stop could be confirmed.
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