Mahasamund police arrested two alleged main suppliers from Odisha, saying they had reached the roots of an interstate ganja-trafficking network.[1] Police reached the pair by analysing toll Fastag payments, mobile tower locations and call detail records.[1] Investigators concluded that on 31 July 2025 the two men, from Marding village in Odisha’s Kalahandi district and aged 27 and 30, supplied ganja to smugglers from Madhya Pradesh.[1] Police arrested both of them on 4 November 2026.[1]
The case dates from 1 August 2025, when Basna police were posted in front of the station and a car coming from Padampur in Odisha sped off after its occupants saw the blockade.[1] Police chased the car, and the accused abandoned it near Khemra pond on Jagdishpur road and escaped in the dark.[1] When officers searched the car before witnesses they found 46.6 kilograms of ganja in three plastic sacks on the back seat, and registered a case under the NDPS Act.[1] Three smugglers from Madhya Pradesh were arrested earlier in the same case, and police said the ganja and the car used to carry it together account for property worth Rs 18.20 lakh seized so far.[1]
Police said the arrests reached the main accused who supplied ganja to the trafficking network.[1] Besides the car’s ownership records, toll Fastag, tower locations and call records, officers established that the Madhya Pradesh smugglers were buying ganja in Odisha, and that they fled to Nagpur after abandoning the car at Basna.[1] Police then arrested three Madhya Pradesh men in the case, named in the report as Ankit Pal, Akash Kushwaha and Pushparaj Singh Tomar.[1]
