24-year-old held with 1.214 kg of ganja on a Birbhum state road
Mayureswar police arrested a 24-year-old man from Barutia village during a night search on the SH-11 Sainthia-Bahrampur state road in Birbhum, West Bengal, and seized 1 kg 214 g of ganja from him. Police booked him under the NDPS Act and said they were checking whether anyone else was involved in the trafficking.
🇮🇳 Mahisha Tower area, SH-11 Sainthia-Bahrampur road, Mayureswar, Birbhum district, West Bengal · India
Investigators had a secret tip that a young man was holding ganja on the state
road.[1]The investigating team was searching on the SH-11 state road at the
Mahisha Tower area the previous night.[1]Officers detained the man there in
suspicious circumstances and found the ganja when they searched him.[1]
A case was registered against him under specific sections of the NDPS Act.[1]
The article gives no calendar date for the search, saying it happened last night in a report published on 7 November 2026, so 6 November 2026 is recorded as the incident date.
Only one account of this arrest could be found; searches in Bengali and English did not produce a police statement or a second outlet.
The article does not name the specific NDPS Act sections applied or the quantity threshold the case falls under.
No street value was published for the 1 kg 214 g of ganja.
No court appearance, remand order or outcome was reported; the case was at the investigation stage.
The page photo is captioned only with the article headline and is not established to show this seizure, so it is not linked as media.
A separate 10 kg ganja seizure in Kolkata by the Special Task Force, mentioned in the same article, belongs to another event and is left out here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Bartaman Patrika: Mayureswar police arrested one young man and recovered 1 kg 214 g of ganja from him.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Bartaman Patrika: The arrested man, Sagar Mal, is 24 years old and lives in Barutia village under Mayureswar police station.
Left out arrested, as its quotation was not found in Bartaman Patrika.
Left out kg seized, as its quotation was not found in Bartaman Patrika.
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