Police in Muzaffarnagar’s Khala Par station area arrested four men from Meerut on suspicion of smuggling ganja on 6 November 2026.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The four come from Sindhawali village on Rohta Road, in the Kankarkhera police station area of Meerut district.[1][3][4][5][7]

Sub-inspector Asgar Ali’s team stopped them at about 1:15 pm on the lane behind Sharden School, on the way from Meerut Road towards Garhabagh, after they turned back at the sight of the police patrol.[1][3][5] Each man carried a bag, and police say the four bags together held 25 kg 700 grams of ganja.[1][3][8][5] Police also seized four mobile phones.[1][8][5][9] They had the ganja weighed and put its value at 385,500 rupees.[1][3][5][6]

The case

Police registered case 195/2026 at Khala Par station under sections 8/20 of the NDPS Act[1][5], and the four were produced in court and sent to jail in judicial custody.[9] One account says a chargesheet was filed against all four.[8] Assistant superintendent and city circle officer Siddharth K. Mishra said the arrests came in a district campaign against drug smugglers ordered by senior superintendent Suraj Kumar Rai.[1]

The accused told police they had bought the ganja from a man named Harish in Uttarakhand and brought larger loads when festival-season demand pushed prices up[1][3][5]; Harish was said to bring it from the hills of Pauri, and the men sold it in small packets in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar.[10][8][6] Special teams were formed to arrest Harish, who is still at large.[9]

Police said one of the four, Anwar, is on the Meerut police’s history sheet at Kankarkhera station as number 155A, with earlier cases of robbery, gangster law, the Arms Act and assault; Talib faced a 2020 NDPS case at Meerut’s Civil Lines station and Irshan a 2023 NDPS case at Khatauli.[1][6] Two accounts say the four had earlier been caught or jailed in Uttarakhand under the NDPS Act.[8][9] Police are tracing the wider network.[1]