Man held with 33.5 kg of ganja in a hidden chamber of a Naugarh pickup
Police in Naugarh, Chandauli district, arrested a man with 33.5 kg of ganja hidden in a concealed chamber under the cargo bed of a Magic pickup on the night of 5 November 2026. The load, which the suspect said came from Ambikapur and was bound for Varanasi, was seized along with the vehicle under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Near the Jaymohani forest range office, Naugarh-Madhupur road, Naugarh, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh · India
Police in Naugarh, Chandauli district, arrested a man carrying 33 kg500 g of
ganja in a Magic pickup on the night of 5 November 2026.[1]Officers stopped
the pickup near the Jaymohani forest range office on the Naugarh-Madhupur road
after a tip-off that a large ganja load was being moved by four-wheeler.[1]According to Hindustan, the driver sped up and fled when signalled to stop, and
officers chased the vehicle and took it to the police station.[1]
The ganja was packed in 33 bundles wrapped in plastic and tape and hidden in a
concealed chamber under an iron plate on the pickup’s cargo bed.[2]The load
was weighed in the presence of the Naugarh tehsildar, a sub-district revenue
officer, and came to 33 kg500 g.[2]The suspect told police he picked up the
load in Ambikapur and was taking it to Chandmari in Varanasi.[1]
Hindustan reported that police registered a case against the suspect and sent
him to jail.[1]Police registered the case at Naugarh police station, case
crime number 99/26, under sections 8/20/60 of the NDPS Act, and seized the
pickup, registered UP 65 JT 8607.[2]Dainik Bhaskar reported that police
seized the pickup along with 33 kg500 g of ganja found in a secret chamber in
its cargo bed.[3]
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Photo published with the report on the Naugarh seizure of 33.5 kg of ganja from a hidden chamber in a Magic pickup.Photo details
Purvanchal Timespurvanchaltimes.inHIChandauli News: मैजिक में अलग चेंबर बनाकर छिपाया था गांजा, शातिर तस्कर गिरफ्तार, 33.5 किलो गांजा बरामद
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIनौगढ़ में 33.5 किलो गांजा लेकर जा रहा तस्कर गिरफ्तार: मैजिक पिकअप के गुप्त चैंबर से मिले 33 बंडल, पुलिस ने वाहन जब्त किया
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Hindustan places the stop on the night of Thursday 5 November 2026 and says the suspect was sent to jail, while the two Dainik Bhaskar reports say Friday, when the case was registered; 5 November is used as the incident date.
Hindustan says the load came from Ambikapur in Madhya Pradesh, while Dainik Bhaskar and Purvanchal Times place Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh; that district is in Chhattisgarh.
Hindustan says officers chased the pickup after the driver tried to flee; the other accounts say the vehicle was stopped for a search.
No street value for the ganja was published, and the pickup's registration number appears in only one account.
The reports give no outcome beyond the case being registered and, per one outlet, the suspect being jailed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police acted on an informer's tip that ganja was being moved in a four-wheeled vehicle.
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