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.
🇮🇳 Near the Karumahari mandapam, Thorappadi, near Panruti, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu · India
Police from the Puthupettai station near Panruti, a town and taluk headquarters
in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district, went out on patrol under Sub-Inspector
Saranya and other officers.[1]
Near the Karumahari mandapam at Thorappadi, by the Mariamman temple street, the
officers found two men selling ganja, the Tamil word for cannabis, and arrested
both of them.[1]Police named the two men as Parasuraman, aged 25, son of
Pakkiri of Thorappadi Mariamman Kovil Street, and Madan, aged 21, son of
Marudhavanan.[1]
Officers seized80 grams of ganja, about 0.08 kilograms, from the two men, given
as one combined figure with no split between them.[1]The account names no
charge, remand or court date for either man, and gives no value for the ganja
seized.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No date is given for the patrol or the arrests; 13 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
No charge, remand or court outcome for the two men was reported.
The article is filed under Dinamalar's Puducherry section while its dateline names Panruti, a town in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu.
The same report describes a separate arrest in Devanampattinam, Cuddalore, of a 24-year-old man with 45 grams of ganja; that is a different event and is left out of this report.
Only one account of the Panruti arrests was opened, and no agency statement or second outlet was found for it.
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