16 kg of ganja seized from abandoned train bag at Katpadi
Government Railway Police seized 16 kg of ganja from an abandoned bag on an express train at Katpadi railway station in Vellore. Two commuters fled when officers checked the train under Operation Narcos, and GRP Katpadi registered a case.
The Government Railway Police seized a consignment of 16 kg of ganja on an
express train at Katpadi railway station in Vellore on Wednesday.[1]Initial
inquiry revealed that two commuters alighted the express train and fled the spot
after they noticed a police team checking the train.[1]The police also
analysed CCTV camera footage to nab the gang that was involved in ganja
smuggling.[1]A probe is under way.[1]
The police said that as part of a special drive against illegal transportation
of narcotic substances and inflammable articles on trains under Operation
Narcos, a team of GRP police personnel was conducting surprise checks at the
railway station.[1]The team found an abandoned bag with bundles of ganja in
the luggage carrier of the general compartment on an express train bound to
Bengaluru.[1]The express train on which the bag was found was bound to
Bengaluru.[1]
A case has been registered by GRP Katpadi.[1]Police gave the weight of the
seized ganja consignment as 16 kg.[1]
Case data
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Bengaluru city police seized 46 kg and 486 grams of ganja and 1 litre and 542 millilitres of hashish oil in raids across eleven police-station areas, an operation in which they arrested 34 people. Police valued all the narcotics seized, including MDMA and cocaine, at Rs 12.61 crore and registered cases under the NDPS Act.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.