Police in Indore arrested three men in separate actions in the Pandharinath, Azad Nagar and Sanyogitaganj police-station areas.[1] Police identified the three as Javed Gani, Mujammil Sheikh and Shahzad.[1] Gani, 55, lives in Ushaganj Chhawni.[2] Sheikh, 28, lives in Medina Nagar.[2] The third man, 52, lives in Khajrana and was arrested by Pandharinath police.[2] Officers seized 1 kg 237 g of ganja from Gani in Sanyogitaganj.[1] Pandharinath police seized 18.33 g of charas, a hand-pressed cannabis resin, from their suspect.[1] Azad Nagar police caught Sheikh in a ground near Ananda Grand Colony.[2] They seized 7.58 g of brown sugar, the heroin form sold in India, from him.[2] Police put the value of the seized drugs at lakhs of rupees.[1]

The actions came in a citywide drive against people involved in buying and selling drugs, police said.[1] The drive runs on the directions of the Indore police commissioner, the police commissionerate said.[3] Cases were registered against all three under the NDPS Act, India’s main drug law.[2]

Police were questioning the three about where they got the drugs and whom they supplied in Indore.[1] Police said they would trace backward and forward links in the trade and act against other people connected to it.[1] Police said further legal action was continuing.[3]