NCB Srinagar arrests 22 in eight cases and seizes 18.24 kg of charas
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.
The Narcotics Control Bureau in Srinagar arrested 22 people in eight cases
registered during 2025 and 2026 so far, widening its net against narcotics
networks in Srinagar and other parts of Jammu and Kashmir.[1]The bureau
registered five of the cases in 2025 and three in 2026.[1]
The agency put the total weight of narcotics seized in the eight cases at 57.470
kg, of which 39.230 kg was poppy straw.[1]Charas accounted for 18.240 kg of
the seizures, the cannabis figure in the bureau’s totals.[1]Case-wise figures
give the largest single haul as 10.735 kg of charas, seized in August 2025,
followed by 2.730 kg in November and 2.010 kg in December that year.[1]Charas
seizures continued in 2026, with 1.210 kg in one case and 0.635 kg in another in
January and 0.920 kg in a case registered in February.[1]
The action also reached beyond Jammu and Kashmir, with an inter-state charas
smuggling network operating between Kashmir and Kolkata busted during the
period.[1]Five accused were arrested in that case, two of them from Kolkata
and three from Kashmir.[1]
NCB Srinagar officials said the agency regularly conducts awareness programmes
in schools and colleges on the harmful effects of drug abuse.[1]They appealed
to the local population to support the agency, saying collective efforts are
essential to eliminate the drug menace from society.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No date is given for the release of the bureau's figures; the article carries a 13 November 2026 Srinagar dateline and was published on 14 November, and 13 November is used as the incident date for the roundup.
The article does not say how the 22 arrests are distributed across the eight cases, beyond the five in the Kashmir-Kolkata network.
The bureau's 57.470 kg total includes 39.230 kg of poppy straw and 0.55 gram of heroin, so that figure is not recorded as a cannabis weight.
No charges, NDPS Act sections or court outcomes are given for any of the eight cases.
The date and case number of the bust of the Kashmir-Kolkata network are not stated.
The account rests on one outlet's access to NCB Srinagar's official data; no second published account of the roundup was found.
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Chennaimalai police in Erode district arrested two men from Odisha, aged 25 and 30, who were holding 10 kilograms of ganja for sale in the Sipcot area near Ingur. The cannabis was seized and both men were produced before the Perundurai judicial magistrate and jailed.
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