Assam police seize 102.28 kg of ganja near Arunachal border, hold four
Assam Police seized 102.28 kg of ganja and detained four people in a night operation on the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border under Mazbat police station in Udalguri district on 8 November 2026. The Chief Minister's Office confirmed the seizure, made during Diwali, and police said they were interrogating the four to trace the supply network.
🇮🇳 Mazbat police station area, Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border, Udalguri district, Assam · India
Assam Police seized102.28 kg of ganja and detained four people in a night
operation along the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border on 8 November 2026.[1]The
raid was carried out under Mazbat police station in Udalguri district, where a
police team set up checkpoints on intelligence about drug transit across state
lines and stopped the traffickers.[1]Police said the four detained were
suspected of being key links in the regional distribution chain.[1]
The Chief Minister’s Office said in a release that police seized 102.28 kg of
ganja and apprehended four persons in the operation under Mazbat police station,
carried out while people across Assam celebrated Diwali.[2]
The identities of the four detained were not disclosed, and police said they
were interrogating them to trace the supply network, the source of the cannabis
and local handlers.[1]Officials described the seizure as part of the state’s
ongoing #AssamAgainstDrugs campaign against narcotics.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Sentinel writes 'Sunday, November 9', but 9 November 2026 was a Monday and the article was published that morning; the operation is placed on Sunday 8 November, the night the Chief Minister's Office says it occurred.
The precise checkpoint on the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border is not named; Mazbat, the police station area, is marked at the Udalguri district centre.
No charge, case number or court step was reported, and the four detainees were not named.
No estimated value for the 102.28 kg was published, and the cannabis is described only as ganja.
Only one news report and the Chief Minister's Office post could be opened; the post repeats the police figures rather than adding an independent account.
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