Two arrested with 1.100 kg of ganja in Koothanallur; third suspect sought
Police in Koothanallur, Thiruvarur district, arrested two men aged 18 and 20 after finding 1.100 kg of ganja with them on the Kunukkudi main road on Thursday, and seized their two-wheeler. A third man, 27, from Kunukkudi is wanted and police say they are searching for him.
🇮🇳 Kunukkudi main road, Koothanallur, Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu · India
Police in Koothanallur, in Tamil Nadu’s Thiruvarur district, arrested two men
after a check on the Kunukkudi main road turned up ganja, and were searching for
a third man who fled.[1]Acting on a tip that ganja was being sold in the
Kunukkudi area, officers carried out an intensive check and surveillance there
on Thursday.[1]Investigators identified the three as aged 18, 20 and 27,
residents respectively of Vakkottai, Mannargudi and Kunukkudi, and police
arrested the first two while the 27-year-old from Kunukkudi escaped.[1]
Police registered a case, seized1.100 kg of ganja and the two-wheeler the men
were standing beside, and said they were searching for the man who fled.[1]
The same report says a 74-year-old man in Koothanallur was separately arrested
for selling Tamil Nadu state liquor near his home, with 18 bottles seized; no
cannabis was involved in that case.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one account of the ganja arrest was found; no police statement or second outlet could be opened.
The article dates the check to Thursday but gives no calendar date; 5 November 2026 is used as the incident date, the Thursday before the 6 November publication.
The weight is published as 1.100 kg; it is not stated whether this is measured dried ganja or how it was packaged.
No value for the seized ganja, no formal charges beyond a registered case and no court outcome were reported.
The three men's names were published by the outlet, but only their ages and home towns are recorded here.
Coordinates are for Koothanallur town, not the Kunukkudi main road spot where the check took place.
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