Odisha excise drive nets 3,764 arrests and 3,201 kg of ganja
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.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people and seized contraband,
including ganja, worth Rs 45.57 crore during a month-long special enforcement
drive across the state.[1]The drive ran from 10 October to 10 November 2026
and targeted the illegal manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor and
narcotic substances during the festival season.[1]The department registered
7,826 cases during the drive.[1]
Seizures in the period included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin, 150.5
litres of cough syrup, 14,193 kg of mahua flowers, 1,045 litres of duplicate
foreign liquor and 4,28,585 bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor.[1]Enforcement teams destroyed more than 40.6 lakh bulk litres of wash and seized
442 vehicles allegedly used in the commission of the offences.[1]
The Rs 45.57 crore total covers the contraband seized in the drive as a whole,
including illicit liquor and other narcotics as well as ganja.[1]The
department said it would continue vigilance and enforcement measures to prevent
the circulation of contraband and strengthen the fight against substance abuse
across the state.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Herbal cannabis (3.201 t); Other cannabis product (6.366 kg)
Activity
Possession, Smuggling, Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Operation
10 Oct 2026 – 10 Nov 2026
Region
Odisha
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The Rs 45.57 crore figure is the total value of all contraband seized in the drive, including illicit liquor and other narcotics, and cannot be separated into a cannabis-only value.
The ganja figure is the department's own; no independent weighing or second opened account was found to confirm it.
The number of arrests is for all the department's cases in the period, so it is not limited to cannabis offences.
No breakdown by district, no court outcomes and no charges beyond the 7,826 registered cases were reported.
No photograph of this drive with a recoverable direct image address was available in the opened page.
Bengaluru city police seized 46 kg and 486 grams of ganja and 1 litre and 542 millilitres of hashish oil in raids across eleven police-station areas, an operation in which they arrested 34 people. Police valued all the narcotics seized, including MDMA and cocaine, at Rs 12.61 crore and registered cases under the NDPS Act.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
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.
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.