Naigarhi police in Mauganj district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested Satish Gupta after he had been missing for six months in a ganja-smuggling case.[1] Ganja is the name used locally for cannabis.[1] Officers took him from his hardware shop in Pahadi village, inside the Shahpur police station area.[1] He is 38, the son of Rajbahor Gupta, and a resident of Pahadi.[2] Station house officer Anil Kakde’s team carried out the arrest under Superintendent of Police Manohar Singh Mandloi.[2] Additional Superintendent Shashikant Saryam and subdivisional police officer Sachi Pathak were also named as supervising the search.[2]

The arrest followed a raid on 11 April 2026 at a poultry farm in Dihiya, where police caught Kuldeep Jaiswal, also known as Vishnu, of ward 13 in Naigarhi, with 2 kilograms 340 grams of ganja.[2] They valued it at 22,400 rupees.[2] During questioning Kuldeep said he had obtained the ganja from Satish Gupta.[2] A case was then registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Kuldeep was sent to jail, and Satish was recorded as absconding.[2] Dainik Bhaskar’s headline later described that poultry-farm seizure as 2 kg of ganja.[1][3]

Police had kept an informer network looking for the missing accused, and arrested him at the shop after a tip.[2] The officers credited with the arrest were inspector Anil Kakde, sub-inspector Anantvijay Singh, R.P. Verma, head constable Ramkumar Bhaskar, Rashiraman Sahu, and constables Avinash Singh and Prakash Kushwaha.[2]