Nine arrested as police seize charas in four Kashmir districts
Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested nine alleged drug peddlers in separate operations across Bandipora, Anantnag, Pulwama and Awantipora districts on 31 October 2026. Officers recovered charas and other cannabis substances, including 2.222 kg of charas chura in Pulwama, and said cases were registered at the respective police stations.
🇮🇳 Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir · India
- Arrested
- 9
- Cannabis
- 5.477 kg
Nine alleged drug peddlers were arrested in separate operations across
Bandipora, Anantnag, Pulwama and Awantipora districts on 31 October 2026, and
police said the operations recovered more than two kilograms of charas chura and
other suspected narcotic substances.[1] The largest seizure was in Pulwama,
where police recovered 2.222 kg of charas chura and 40 grams of charas from a
suspect during naka checking, a roadside checkpoint, at Murran Sheikhpora.[1]
In Bandipora, police arrested Ghulam Mohammad Bhat and Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, both
residents of Wewan, at Lal Qila Morh, Pethkoot.[2] In Anantnag, four men were
arrested in separate operations by police stations Srigufwara, Bijbehara and
Uttrasoo and Police Post Sangam.[1] Shabir Ahmad Khan was arrested at Hatigam
Crossing with 982 grams of charas powder, Mohd Maqbool Bhat at Kandipora with
four sticks weighing about 84 grams, Parvaiz Ahmad Shah at Sangam with 8 grams,
and Asif Ahmad Mochi at Shergund with 11 grams.[1]
In a second Pulwama operation, police arrested Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh of Inder at
Tehsil Office Link Road with five lathis, or sticks, of a charas-like substance
wrapped in maize husk.[1]
Police said cases were registered under relevant provisions of law at the
respective police stations and investigations were initiated.[1]
Sources
- Police arrest 9 drug peddlers. Daily Excelsior, 1 November 2026.
- 9 drug peddlers arrested. Kashmir Images, 31 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- No combined weight was published for the nine arrests; the 5.477 kg figure is the sum of the individual amounts stated in the reports (2.222 kg, 40 g, 1.030 kg, 982 g, 84 g, 8 g, 11 g, 30 g and 1.070 kg). Daily Excelsior repeats the 1.030 kg Bandipora figure in a summary line; it is counted once.
- Several amounts were described as charas-like or cannabis-like substances, and no laboratory confirmation was reported.
- Daily Excelsior called the 1.030 kg Bandipora recovery charas, while Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Images called it a charas-like or cannabis-like substance.
- Two of the nine arrests, the Pethkoot arrests in Bandipora and the Tral arrest in Awantipora, are also recorded in separate reports on this tracker.
- The reports give no ages or occupations for the nine men and no court appearance, bail decision or conviction; police said only that cases were registered and investigations begun.
- Coordinates are for Srinagar, where the police statement was datelined, not for any single operation site.
- Daily Excelsior did not name the Pulwama suspect; Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Images named him as Rayees Ahmad Rather of Murran.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Greater Kashmir: Police identified the suspect as Rayees Ahmad Rather, a resident of Murran.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Kashmir Images: About 1.030 kg of a cannabis-like substance was recovered from them.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Greater Kashmir: In Awantipora, Police Station Tral arrested Owais Ahmed Khan of Yanganwani Aripal near Fiza Point on the Tral-Awantipora road with about 30 grams of a cannabis-like substance and 1.070 kg of ground cannabis, and seized an auto load carrier.