Convicted ganja peddler escapes from Madurai court premises
A special NDPS court in Madurai convicted a ganja peddler, Raja of Sirumalai in Dindigul district, over illegal ganja trafficking reported in May 2024, and he escaped from the court premises minutes after the judgment. Police launched a manhunt in the city to apprehend the fleeing convict.
🇮🇳 First Additional Special Court for NDPS Act Cases, Madurai · India
A special court in Madurai convicted a ganja peddler, Raja of Sirumalai in
Dindigul district, in a 2024 case under the NDPS Act.[1]Raja escaped from the
court premises on Thursday 12 November 2026, minutes after the judgment
convicting him was pronounced.[1]
Police launched a manhunt in the city to apprehend the fleeing convict.[1]Judge G. Sudhagar of the First Additional Special Court for NDPS Act Cases
convicted Raja, along with a few other accused, over illegal trafficking of
ganja reported in Dindigul in May 2024.[1]Raja, who was seated on the court
premises, gave police the slip at around 4.30 p.m.[1]
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A Narnaul court granted regular bail to Mangal Chauhan alias Chirag after police seized 1.193 kg of ganja from a bag near Chhota-Bada Talab on 6 October 2026. The court treated the quantity as intermediate, so section 37 of the NDPS Act did not bar bail, and ordered release on a Rs 50,000 bond and surety.
Additional Sessions Judge Sudhir S. Shirgaonkar in Colva, Goa, refused bail to a 29-year-old Odisha native that the Konkan Railway Police arrested on 24 October 2026 with 2.8 kg of suspected ganja valued at about Rs 2.8 lakh. The court said drug cases must be weighed on public health and on the money flowing through the illegal trade.
The court of the Special Judge in Kangra, at Dharamshala, denied regular bail to a 19-year-old woman arrested with 1.006 kg of charas from an HRTC bus near Nurpur in June 2026. The court held the quantity was commercial and that the twin conditions of Section 37 of the NDPS Act were not met, despite her age, clean record and the completed investigation.
A Kathua court granted conditional bail to Sahil Verma and Mukesh Kumar, who were arrested in June 2026 with a bag of charas in Lakhanpur. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Pandoh held that excluding packaging the drug weighed under one kilogram, placing it below the commercial threshold under the NDPS Act.
