Indore’s Crime Branch arrested five accused in two operations in the city on 4 April 2025 and booked all of them under the NDPS Act, India’s main anti-drug law.[1] Officers found 11.7 kg of cannabis, known locally as ganja, in the three arrests near the Super Corridor, while the two Tigaria Badshah arrests recovered MD drugs.[1] The three men held with the ganja were identified as Shanu alias Vikas Sen from Bakhatgarh Badnawar, Ajay Singh Devda and Sujal Gurjar from Lavkush Chauraha.[1] The Times of India gave their ages as 28, 21 and 19 and said all three are residents of Badnawar in Dhar district.[2] Preliminary investigation indicated the trio had brought the cannabis from outside Indore to sell it in the city.[1]

During questioning the three admitted obtaining the drug from Dhar to sell at higher prices to local youths, and one of them was found to be a habitual consumer of narcotic substances.[2] Police registered a case under Section 8/20 of the NDPS Act at the crime branch police station.[2] The police obtained remand of the three to investigate their role in a wider trafficking network, its sources and other people involved.[2] The Times of India put the value of the 11.7 kg of cannabis and the vehicle seized from them at about 5 lakh rupees.[2]

The three were caught after their hatchback tried to flee at high speed in the Super Corridor area and police surrounded and intercepted it.[2] In the Tigaria Badshah operation, an alleged deal site, police found 51.34 grams of MD drugs in the suspects’ black car, and the accused were named as Zafar Pathan of Noorani Nagar and Mohammad Irfan of Nihalpura.[2] The Times of India estimated the value of the MD drugs and that car at about 15 lakh rupees.[2] The first operation began when DCP (Crime) Rajesh Tripathi acted on a tip-off and sent two teams to Tigaria Badshah, where two men in a black car tried to flee as police arrived.[3] Additional DCP Rajesh Dandotiya said the secnd operation came from a routine patrol that spotted a suspicious car and, after a chase, recovered the cannabis.[2]

The Crime Branch was questioning all five to find the source of the drugs and map their distribution network, and DCP Tripathi said more such operations would follow.[1]