Mandi police seize 506 g of charas in car check, arrest one of two held
Balh police stopped a Punjab-registered car during a vehicle check on the Nagchala fourlane in Mandi district and found 506 grams of charas, arresting a 23-year-old from Kaithal, Haryana. The same day, Dhanotu police arrested a 29-year-old local man on a CTU bus with 6.930 grams of heroin, a separate case.
🇮🇳 Nagchala fourlane, Balh, Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Mandi district police recovered charas and heroin in two separate operations and
arrested one suspect in each case.[1]
A team from Balh police station stopped a Punjab-registered Maruti Ertiga during
a vehicle check on the Nagchala fourlane and found 506 grams of charas in the
car.[1][2]Police arrested the car’s occupant at the scene; he was identified as
Suhail, 23, a resident of Kaithal district in Haryana.[1][2]In the second case,
a Dhanotu police station team set up a blockade on the fourlane near the Shikari
Mata temple at Naulakha, where a search of a man travelling on a CTU bus found
6.930 grams of heroin, known locally as chitta.[1][2]Police arrested that man,
identified as Aditya, 29, a resident of Balh tehsil in Mandi district; the
heroin is not cannabis and is not counted in the cannabis figures here.[1][2]
Police said both accused were being produced before a court and that further
investigation continues in both cases.[1][2]Mandi police said action against
people involved in the illegal drug trade would continue and asked residents to
report drug-related activity.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The report covers two separate cases on the same day; only the 506 grams of charas is a cannabis seizure, and the 6.930 grams of heroin is not counted in the cannabis figure.
No value was given for the 506 grams of charas, and no NDPS sections, vehicle seizure or court outcome were reported.
The article gives no time of day for either check and no separate date beyond its own 10 November 2026 publication date.
Whether the two arrests are linked to the same supply network, and where the charas came from, is not stated.
No second opened account of either case was found, so this report rests on one source.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
