Police in Kollam, Kerala, arrested a 29-year-old doctor and a woman doctor after officers found three grams of ganja in their hotel room.[1] The man practised medicine in Kollam, according to officials quoted by the news agency PTI.[1] Officers from the police control room went to Hotel Dona Castel at about 12.20 am after hotel staff reported a clash in Room No. 107 on the first floor.[1]

Police said the doctor abused and assaulted them when they entered the room, and additional officers from Kollam West police station were called in to restrain him while the woman was crying.[1] A search of the room found a small packet holding dried leaves, flowers and fruiting tops of a cannabis plant on a table, and officers also recovered OCB rolling papers.[1] Police said the doctor told them he had bought the ganja for personal consumption.[1]

Officers registered two cases, one against the man for assaulting police personnel and one against both doctors for possessing ganja.[1] Both were granted bail in the narcotics case because the quantity seized was small.[1] The man was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days in the assault case.[2] Police said whether he was under the influence of narcotic substances would be known only after the medical examination report.[2] The woman doctor, a native of Ernakulam, was released on bail after her arrest in the ganja case.[3]

The woman doctor had complained that the man assaulted her, and police said her detailed statement would be recorded as part of the investigation.[1] The reports are based on an account that Kollam West police gave to the news agency PTI on Thursday, 22 October 2026.[1] Times of India reported that police recovered six grams of ganja in the room.[2] Hindustan Times carried the same PTI report from Kollam about the arrest and the ganja seizure.[4]