NCB seizes two tonnes of ganja hidden in truck near Hyderabad
Officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau's Bengaluru and Hyderabad units intercepted a truck near the Pedda Amberpet toll plaza in Hyderabad and seized more than two tonnes of ganja concealed among cashew shells, arresting four suspects in what officials called the zone's biggest seizure.
🇮🇳 Pedda Amberpet toll plaza, Hyderabad, Telangana · India
Officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Bengaluru zonal unit and
Hyderabad sub-zone intercepted a truck carrying ganja near the Pedda Amberpet
toll plaza in Hyderabad, acting on an intelligence tip received on Sunday.[1][2]They arrested four men from Osmanabad district in Maharashtra,
including the truck driver.[1][2]
The marijuana, weighing more than 2,000 kg, was concealed between raw cashew
nut shells in about 1,080 packets of roughly 2 kg each.[1][2]NCB officials
called it the Bengaluru zone’s biggest seizure and valued the haul at about
Rs 15 crore.[1][2]
According to the NCB, the ganja came from the Andhra-Odisha border area,
where it is grown illegally in an area affected by Naxalite insurgents, and
the consignment was bound for Pune and Mumbai.[1][2]Officials said a wide
peddling network distributes the drug across Indian states and smuggles it
overseas to Sri Lanka.[1][2]The seizure was made under the Narcotic Drugs
and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.[1][2]
Case data
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Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.