Karaikal ganja seller jailed 10 years, three others fined
Karaikal District Judge Mohan sentenced Suresh, 44, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 50,000 fine for selling ganja, with six more months in jail if the fine is unpaid. Three co-accused, his son Sathish and two friends, were each fined Rs 10,000 in the case dating to a 2023 arrest.
🇮🇳 Karaikal, Puducherry · India
Arrested
4
Prison
10 years
Fine
INR 50,000
Agencies
Karaikal Town Police Station, Karaikal District Court
Karaikal District Judge Mohan sentenced Suresh, 44, the main accused in a
Karaikal ganja-sale case, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 50,000
fine.[1]The judge ordered Suresh to serve an additional six months in prison
if he fails to pay the fine.[1]The court also fined three co-accused in the
same case, Sathish, Vijayson and Faisal Rahman, Rs 10,000 each.[1]
The case began in 2023 after police received information that some people were
selling ganja to young people in the Karaikal Town police-station area.[1]Officers rushed to the scene and arrested Sathish of Kambam in Theni, who was
studying at a private college in Nagapattinam, along with his Karaikal friends
Vijayson and Faisal Rahman.[1]Questioning revealed that Suresh, 44, Sathish’s
father, was behind ganja sales in the Karaikal area, after which police arrested
Suresh and lodged him in jail.[1]
The case was tried before Karaikal District Judge Mohan, and judgment was
delivered the day before the 10 November 2026 report.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Prison
10 years
Fine
INR 50,000
Agencies
Karaikal Town Police Station; Karaikal District Court
No weight or quantity of ganja was published, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The judgment date is taken as 9 November 2026 because the 10 November 2026 report says judgment was delivered 'yesterday'.
The Rs 30,000 in additional fines on the three co-accused is described in the text but the structured fine figure records only the Rs 50,000 fine on the main convict.
No custodial term for Sathish, Vijayson and Faisal Rahman beyond the fines was reported.
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A special NDPS court in Chandigarh sentenced a 34-year-old Hamirpur man convicted of keeping 200 grams of charas to the one month he had already spent in jail, plus a 7,500-rupee fine, after he said he had fallen into bad company. The judge treated the quantity as intermediate rather than commercial and let him return to his family without further jail time.
A special NDPS court in Jhansi sentenced a man to three months and five days of rigorous imprisonment and a 20,000-rupee fine in a case dating to the 500 grams of charas police found on him in September 2015. He admitted the offence, and the court set off the months he had already spent in jail.