50 kg ganja seized from Swift Dzire in Katni; driver fled
Jhinjhari police in Katni seized 50 kg of ganja from an unnumbered white Swift Dzire after its driver abandoned the car near Forest Smriti Van on Badagaon Road and fled. Police registered a case against unknown accused under the NDPS Act and valued the seized ganja at about Rs 500,000.
🇮🇳 Forest Smriti Van, Badagaon Road, Katni, Madhya Pradesh · India
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Cannabis
50 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 500,000
On 4 November 2026, Jhinjhari police chased an unnumbered white Swift Dzire
after a tip that its driver was carrying ganja from Umaria toward Jabalpur.[1][2]The driver sped away from two police teams, turned off near the GST office onto
Badagaon Road, stopped in front of Forest Smriti Van and fled under cover of
darkness.[1][2]Police searched for the driver at the spot but did not find him,
so no arrest was made there.[1][2]Police registered a case against unknown
accused under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act.[1][2]
Officers searched the abandoned unnumbered white Swift Dzire before independent
witnesses and found 50 packets of ganja inside the car.[1][2]Separate weighing
showed each packet held 1 kg, making 50 kg of ganja in total.[1][2]Police seized
the car and the ganja, valuing the ganja at about 500,000 rupees and the car at
about 700,000 rupees for a combined seizure of about 1,200,000 rupees.[1][3]
The raid was guided by Madhavnagar station house officer Shailendra Singh Yadav
along with senior Katni officers.[1]The team was led by outpost in-charge
Rajesh Kumar Dube with seven other named personnel credited for their roles.[1]Police said the absconding accused would be arrested soon.[1]
Photos and video
Photo of the reported 50 kg ganja seizure from the Swift Dzire car by Jhinjhari police. Source: MP News CastVideo embedded with the report on the Jhinjhari police seizure operation. Source: MP News Cast
No arrest was reported because the driver fled, and the identity of the accused remains unknown.
The car had no number plate, so its registration and owner could not be confirmed from this report.
The valuation line reads 12,00,000 lakh rupees, apparently meaning about 1,200,000 rupees total; only the 500,000-rupee ganja value is recorded as the drug value.
Only one source for this event could be opened, and no agency statement or second outlet account was found.
No separate time of the chase beyond the 4 November 2026 date was published.
The Bhaskar account gives only the combined value of about 12 lakh rupees for the ganja and car together and does not give the separate 500,000-rupee ganja and 700,000-rupee car split recorded in the existing report.
The submitted video page capture contains only the headline and video in readable text; the fuller corroborating details come from the same Bhaskar article's news-text version with the same article ID.
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