Two arrested with 3.2 kg of ganja on Hubballi-Dharwad bypass
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police in Hubballi arrested Tejesh Ramageri and Joseph Das, both 26, on the morning of 5 October 2026 and seized 3.213 kg of ganja from them on the Hubballi-Dharwad bypass. Police valued the cannabis at ₹1,60,650 and registered a case at the Old Hubballi police station.
🇮🇳 Thimmasagar village, Hubballi-Dharwad bypass, Hubballi · India
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police in Hubballi arrested two men and seized3.213 kg of ganja, or cannabis, from them near Thimmasagar village on the
Hubballi-Dharwad bypass on the morning of Monday 5 October 2026.[1]Inspector
Ramesh Kambale and other CCB personnel took part in the operation.[1]
Police named the arrested men as Tejesh Ramageri, 26, a resident of Banagitti
Gudihal Cross in Kalghatgi taluk, and Joseph Das, 26, of Anand Nagar in Old
Hubballi.[2]Officers recovered 3.213 kg of ganja, two mobile phones and
₹1,050 in cash, and valued the cannabis at ₹1,60,650, about ₹1.6 lakh.[1]
A case was registered at Old Hubballi police station, and police said further
investigation was under way.[1]Karnataka TV reported that investigators were
looking into where the cannabis came from and to whom it was being sold.[2]
Case data
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No remand order, charge or court date was reported; both accounts end with the case registered and investigation under way.
Neither report named the law or the sections under which the case was registered.
Hubballi Times put the cash recovered at ₹1,050 and valued the cannabis alone at ₹1,60,650, while Karnataka TV put the cash at ₹1,500 and applied ₹1,60,650 to all the seized property.
Hubballi Times described the pair as transporting cannabis, while Karnataka TV described them as selling it at the spot.
Hubballi Times's page images are a 2022-dated arrest picture and a social-media graphic, and Karnataka TV's lead image is uncaptioned, so no photo of this event is linked.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Karnataka TV: The raid took place in the Old Hubballi police station area, on the road from the Karwar Road bridge towards Thimmasagar, after a tip-off about cannabis sales there.
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