MA student held with 15.2 kg of Nepal charas in Jalandhar
Jalandhar police arrested Mohammad Tanveer, a 25-year-old MA Sociology student from Bihar, near the Railway Colony on 3 January 2026 and recovered 15.2 kg of charas. Police said he brought the resin from Nepal and was waiting in the city to complete a sale, and a court remanded him in police custody.
Jalandhar police arrested 25-year-old Mohammad Tanveer, a post-graduate student
from Bihar with alleged links to a Nepal drug trafficking racket, and recovered
15.2 kg of charas from him.[1]Tanveer was produced before a court and
remanded in police custody for further investigation into the trafficking
network, according to Ravinder Kumar, Station House Officer of Navi Baradari
police station.[1]Tanveer is an MA Sociology student and had previously been
involved in smuggling liquor from Punjab to Bihar, Kumar said.[1]Kumar said
the arrest was made during a checking drive near the Railway Colony.[1]
The police team noticed a young man approaching from the Bashirpura side who
became visibly nervous on spotting the officers.[1]According to Kumar, the
suspect threw a white sack and tried to flee before the team overpowered him.[1]Questioned by police, Tanveer reportedly said he had brought around 15 kg
of charas from Nepal and concealed it in a suitcase.[1]
Tanveer allegedly sourced the drugs from Nepal and was waiting in Jalandhar to
finalise a buyer transaction.[2]Police said Tanveer remained in custody while
investigators verified his statements and traced the supply network and other
people involved.[2]The South Asia Terrorism Portal recap says the FIR for the
case was registered on 25 December 2025 at Cyber Crime Police Station,
Chandigarh.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no FIR number, and no charge beyond a case for drug trafficking is named in the opened reporting.
The 15.2 kg is the rounded headline figure; the fuller text of the article gives the recovery as 15 kg and 200 grams, and no laboratory weight was published.
No value for the charas was published.
No court step after the police-custody remand is reported, and the outcome of the investigation into the Nepal network is unknown.
The second account is a security-analysis recap that repeats the newspaper's report rather than an independent police statement, and its FIR detail is reported only there.
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