Rajkumar alias Fauji held with 20.44 kg of ganja on Charthawal Road, Muzaffarnagar
Kotwali Nagar police in Muzaffarnagar arrested a suspected ganja smuggler on a Charthawal Road check on the night of 11 November 2026 and seized 20.440 kg of ganja, which police valued at about 10.50 lakh rupees. The accused, Rajkumar alias Fauji, was booked under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act in crime 500/2026 and police are tracing his supply network.
🇮🇳 Charthawal Road, Kotwali Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh · India
Kotwali Nagar police in Muzaffarnagar arrested a suspected ganja smuggler,
identified as Rajkumar alias Fauji, during a drive against illegal narcotics.[1]Police seized20.440 kg of ganja from him, which they estimated to be worth
about 10.50 lakh rupees.[1]
The accused was identified as Rajkumar alias Fauji, son of Suresh, of Ramleela
Teela in the Kotwali Nagar station area, about 32 years old.[2]Circle officer
city Siddharth K. Mishra said police stopped and searched a suspicious man ahead
of the madrasa on Charthawal Road and found the ganja on him.[1]Muzaffarnagar
Police said the arrest and the seizure of 20 kg440 g of illegal ganja were made
under the Operation Savera campaign.[2]
Seven cases are registered against the accused at Kotwali Nagar station, two of
them under the NDPS Act.[1]Police said the man admitted in initial
questioning that he bought ganja cheaply and sold it at higher prices across
different parts of the district for illegal profit.[1]Police are
investigating the accused’s forward and backward linkages to trace where the
ganja came from and to whom it was supplied.[1]
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Photograph published with the Muzaffarnagar Police statement on the Charthawal Road arrest and the seizure of 20 kg 440 g of ganja under Operation Savera. Photo: Muzaffarnagar PolicePhoto details
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Amar Ujala puts the ganja's estimated value at about 10.50 lakh rupees; the police statement and Dainik Bhaskar give no value.
Amar Ujala says police registered a first information report under the relevant NDPS Act sections, while Dainik Bhaskar reports a case under sections 8 and 20 with crime number 500/2026.
The accused's record is given as seven cases at Kotwali Nagar by Amar Ujala and as cases dating from 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2026 by Dainik Bhaskar.
The arrest is described as taking place on the night of 11 November 2026 and was announced by police the following morning, so the exact hour is not established.
No remand order, charge sheet or court outcome has been reported, and police said they were still tracing other people linked to the network.
Amar Ujala gives the accused's address as Ramleela Teela without naming his father, while the police statement names his father as Suresh and his age as about 32.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: An informer told police on the night of 11 November that a man was selling ganja on Charthawal Road, and a team led by inspector-in-charge Brajesh Kumar Sharma carried out the check.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police registered a case against the accused under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act, numbered crime 500/2026.
Left out case stage, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar.
Left out charges, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar.
Left out force, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar.
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Excise officials in Karimnagar town, Telangana, raided the Kothirapur area and arrested two people, Ghasiram and Lakshmi, on suspicion of selling ganja, seizing 530 grams of the drug. The operation was led by Circle Inspector Lobanand on the orders of the Assistant Commissioner of Enforcement, and the accounts report no charge or court outcome.
Police on patrol near the Tsunami Nagar burial ground in Devanampattinam detained 24-year-old Akash and seized ganja found in his possession. Questioning showed he had tried to sell the drug, and police registered a case and arrested him.
Panvel city police raided a flat in the MMRDA colony at Palaspe Phata after a tip-off and found 4.255 kg of ganja hidden in its bathroom, arresting Siddharth Ramdas More, 41. Officers also seized an electronic weighing scale, plastic pouches, a stapler and pins, and put the ganja's value at Rs 2,12,700.
