6 kg of ganja seized from unclaimed bag on train at Katpadi
Vellore anti-drug police seized 6 kg of ganja from an unclaimed bag under a seat in the Sanghamitra Express at Katpadi railway station. No owner was found, no arrests were reported, and police registered a case and are investigating.
Officers of the Vellore district anti-drug unit searched the front and rear
general coaches of the Sanghamitra Express after it arrived at Katpadi railway
station.[1]The team was led by Sub-Inspector Karthik Selvam and moved after
receiving information that drugs were being smuggled on that train.[1]In the
rear coach, officers found a bag lying unclaimed under a seat and took
possession of it after passengers in the coach said they knew nothing about it.[1]No owner of the bag was identified and no arrest was reported at the scene.[1]
On opening the bag, police found packets holding 6 kilos of ganja, the term used
in Tamil Nadu for cannabis, and seized the consignment.[1]The 6-kilo figure
is the police count from the packets in the single recovered bag.[1]
Police said the train runs from Danapur in Bihar to Bengaluru in Karnataka.[1]The train searched had arrived at Katpadi two days before the report.[1]Police registered a case over the seizure and were investigating further.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
6 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Smuggling, Possession
Setting
Forest or wild land
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Dinakarandinakaran.comTAகாட்பாடி ரயில் நிலையத்தில் எக்ஸ்பிரஸ் ரயிலில் கடத்திய 6 கிலோ கஞ்சா பறிமுதல்; போதை பொருள் தடுப்பு பிரிவு போலீசார் நடவடிக்கை
Open questions the AI reported
The article published on 3 November 2026 says the search covered the train that arrived the day before yesterday, so 1 November 2026 is used as the incident date by inference.
No arrest, owner, value, or origin and destination beyond the Danapur-Bengaluru train route was reported.
Only one source for this event could be opened and no second corroborating report was found.
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.