Woman arrested with 3 kg of ganja in Jhargram's Baitha
Lalgarh police arrested Tara Vishal in Baitha, Jhargram after finding about 3 kg of ganja and Rs 30,000 cash in her bag. Police allege she ferried ganja by bus and have booked her under the NDPS Act for production in Jhargram court.
🇮🇳 Baitha, Jhargram, West Bengal · India
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Lalgarh police arrested a woman on suspicion of ganja smuggling.[1]The
incident took place in Baitha in Jhargram.[1]Police identified her as Tara
Vishal, a resident of Kalaikunda in Kharagpur, Paschim Medinipur district.[1]Officers noticed her walking along the road at Baitha on Tuesday evening after
she got off a bus carrying a bag and found her movements suspicious.[1]
The search yielded about 3 kg of ganja and 30,000 rupees in cash.[1]Police
allege she travelled between places by bus with ganja in her bag and delivered
it after reaching specific areas.[1]
Police registered a case against her under the relevant sections of the NDPS
Act.[1]Jhargram SDPO Rishabhraj Deb, Lalgarh inspector-in-charge Sanjib Ghosh
and Binpur-1 joint BDO Sumanta Saha visited the scene after learning of the
incident.[1]Police planned to seek 14 days of custody for questioning.[1]
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Photo captioned as the woman arrested in Lalgarh on suspicion of ganja smuggling. Photo: Eisamay.com Source: Eisamay Online
The article gives no separate calendar date for the arrest beyond Tuesday evening; 3 November 2026, the publication date and also a Tuesday, is used as the incident date.
The ganja weight is described as about 3 kg, recorded as 3 kg.
No valuation of the ganja was published; the reported Rs 30,000 is cash said to be recovered, not a drug value.
No court outcome was reported beyond the planned production in Jhargram court and planned 14-day custody prayer.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English and Bengali.
The same article reports a separate Sunday arrest of Satyajit Biswas with 12.6 kg of ganja near Jhargram town, a different event left out here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Eisamay Online: District police said she would be produced in Jhargram court on Wednesday.
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Bajaria police arrested Shabnam Begum in Kanghi Mohal, Kanpur, seizing charas police valued at about Rs 1.5 crore on the international market. Police said she took over the selling and smuggling operation after her partner was jailed for selling charas.
Mahuli police in Sant Kabir Nagar arrested Ramjiyawan Yadav with 600 grams of illegal ganja during a check of suspects and vehicles. He was booked under the NDPS Act, produced in court and remanded to the district jail in judicial custody.
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