Three inter-district ganja smugglers held with 11.06 kg in Pathariya
Pathariya police in Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested three men from Sagar and Ashoknagar districts with 11 kg 60 g of ganja after cordoning off an area near a roadside dhaba on 8 October 2026. Officers valued the ganja at 2.20 lakh rupees and seized a TUV vehicle they said was used in the trafficking, and registered a case against all three.
🇮🇳 Ghatwar dhaba, Pathariya, Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh · India
Pathariya police in Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested three
inter-district ganja smugglers with 11 kg60 g, about 11.06 kg, of the drug.[1]
A special police team cordoned off the area near Ghatwar dhaba, a roadside
eatery, on 8 October 2026 after a tip that people in a four-wheeled vehicle were
waiting there to deliver ganja.[1]The men in the TUV tried to flee when they
saw the police team but were caught in the cordon, and the search of the vehicle
found the ganja, which police valued at 2.20 lakh rupees.[1]Officers also
seized a TUV utility vehicle they said was worth 10 lakh rupees and was used in
the trafficking, putting the total value of the recovered property at 12 lakh20
thousand rupees.[1]
Two of the arrested men, aged 24 and 55, live in Kanera under Rahatgarh in Sagar
district, and the third, aged 55, lives in Ghat Bamuliya in Ashoknagar district.[1]A case was registered against all three under crime number 152/2026, and
they were produced in court.[1]
Dainik Bhaskar’s Pathariya correspondent reported the arrests on 10 October
2026.[2]
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