Kota police arrest Rs 15,000-reward ganja smuggler after year on run
Kota's Railway Colony police station arrested Hariram Meena, 50, a ganja smuggler who had been on the run for a year, at Tirath village in Keshoraipatan. Police had announced a reward of 15,000 rupees for him, and he was wanted in a cannabis smuggling case registered in August 2025.
🇮🇳 Tirath village, Keshoraipatan, Rajasthan · India
Officers of Kota’s Railway Colony police station arrested Hariram Meena, 50, at
Tirath village in Keshoraipatan.[1]Meena, a ganja (cannabis) smuggler, had
been evading arrest for a year.[1]Police had announced a reward of 15,000
rupees for him.[1]
Superintendent of Police Tejaswani Gautam said Meena was the accused in a ganja
smuggling case registered in August 2025.[1]
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The article does not give a separate date for the arrest; 29 October 2026 is the article's publication date.
The newspaper's app paywall closes the article after its first paragraph, so the quantity of cannabis in the case, the charges filed and any court appearance are not known.
No other report of this arrest could be found, and the page carried no photograph of the event.
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