Couple arrested with 21 kg ganja at Satmile Bazar in Namkhana
Police in Namkhana seized about 21 kg of ganja from a couple carrying three bags at Satmile Bazar and arrested the husband and wife. The joint operation was carried out by the Sundarban Police District Special Operation Group and Namkhana police on Friday morning.
🇮🇳 Satmile Bazar area, National Highway 117, Namkhana · India
Officers of the Special Operation Group of Sundarban Police District lay in wait
in the Satmile Bazar area on the basis of a secret tip-off.[1]A couple were
walking along the busy market road in the morning, carrying three bags between
them.[1]Officers surrounded the couple and, on opening the bags, recovered
about 21 kg of ganja.[1]The husband and wife were arrested.[1]
The operation was carried out by the Special Operation Group and Namkhana police
at the Satmile Bazar area on National Highway 117 in Namkhana at around 10 am on
Friday morning.[1]Police named the arrested pair as Swapan Sahu and Krishna
Sahu.[1]Both are residents of the Chandranagar area of Namkhana.[1]
The 21 kg figure is the police recovery claim for the ganja found in the three
bags, reported as an approximate quantity.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
21 kg
Agencies
Special Operation Group, Sundarban Police District; Namkhana police
Noida police arrested 54 people in a special drive across the district's police-station areas, recovering ganja, illicit liquor, knives and betting material. Four itemised ganja seizures totalled 7.13 kg, including 4.7 kg allegedly brought from Delhi for sale in the National Capital Region.
Town police in Palani, Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, arrested two local youths standing near the Palani municipal school and seized 100 grams of cannabis from them.
The Narcotics Control Bureau in Srinagar arrested 22 people in eight cases registered across 2025 and 2026 and reported seizing 18.240 kg of charas. Among them was an inter-state charas network running between Kashmir and Kolkata, in which five people were arrested.
Police from the Puthupettai station near Panruti, in Cuddalore district, arrested two men found selling ganja near the Karumahari mandapam at Thorappadi and seized 80 grams of cannabis. The two, aged 25 and 21, were named as Parasuraman and Madan; no charge or court date was reported.