Police in Haridwar district arrested Amjad Siddiqui, a ganja supplier wanted for about a year in the July 2025 seizure of 21 kilograms of ganja from Sabir Hussain at Kaliyar, from the Ankur Vihar police station area of Loni in Ghaziabad on 7 November 2026.[1][2][3][4] The arrest was made by a team led by Kaliyar station house officer Kamal Mohan Bhandari, in what the reports present as part of Operation Prahar, a district anti-drug drive, and the Nasha Mukt Devbhoomi-2026 campaign.[1] The Haridwar senior superintendent of police had announced a reward of 25,000 rupees for information leading to his arrest, and the team finally found him using manual policing and informant work.[1][4]

The 21 kilograms dates from 15 July 2025, when the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, a special Haridwar police unit, caught Sabir Hussain with the ganja near the Shahji Peer crossroads at Bedpur village in the Kaliyar police area.[1][4] Hussain, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was to supply the ganja to a woman in Kaliyar, and police said other people in the network, especially the woman, were still being sought.[5] Hussain told police he had got the load from Siddiqui, son of Asgar Siddiqui, and the case was registered at Kaliyar police station.[6][3] A chargesheet against Hussain and the named woman was filed in court while Siddiqui remained at large.[1][4] The case registered at Kaliyar police station was number 191/25 under section 8/20 of the NDPS Act, India’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and police were looking for the man and the woman at the time.[7]

Police said Siddiqui already faced cases under the NDPS Act and other serious sections, including a 2017 NDPS case at Kav Nagar police station in Ghaziabad, a 2022 NDPS case at Vijay Vihar police station in Delhi and a 2007 case involving robbery, assault and the Arms Act.[6] Police said they were gathering fuller details of his criminal record.[1][4]

ETV Bharat places the arrest in Ved Vihar Colony in the Ankur Vihar police station area of Loni, describing it as a raid after the team gathered leads through manual policing.[2] Kaliyar station house officer Kamal Mohan Bhandari said the arrested man already faced cases under the NDPS Act, robbery and the Arms Act registered in Ghaziabad and Delhi, and that police were now gathering information on his criminal network and others linked to the drug trade.[2]

Police said he was a key member and main supplier of the ganja trafficking network.[3]