Boragaon police outpost officers arrested 19-year-old Hasim Khatri, son of Noor Mohammad Khatri and a resident of Khirala, on the Dongargaon road on a ganja-trafficking allegation.[1] Police acted on a tip that a young man was carrying ganja on a motorcycle without a registration number.[1] A team led by outpost in-charge sub-inspector Avinash Bhopale set up a checkpoint on the road, and officers caught the man after he tried to run when he saw them.[1]

A search found about 700 grams of ganja, the local name for cannabis, on him.[1] Police seized the ganja and the unregistered motorcycle used to carry it.[1] Police put the estimated value of the seized items at about 30,000 rupees.[1] A case was registered against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and legal proceedings were under way.[1]

The arrest was made on the directions of superintendent of police Agam Jain and under the guidance of additional superintendent Aditya Singhariya, deputy superintendent of police headquarters Durgesh Aarmo and Pandhana station in-charge Rajkumar Rathore.[1] The same article reports a separate Javar police raid that seized 221 ganja plants from two fields in Debri Falya Kaisun village, an operation recorded in another report.[1]