56-year-old held with 13 kg ganja in Pattambi quarters
Pattambi police and the DANSAF squad arrested 56-year-old West Bengal native Chabi Mandal at his rented family quarters in Amayur East Vallur, Pattambi. Police seized 13 kg of cannabis kept for sale, allegedly sourced via Coimbatore, and are probing wider trafficking links.
🇮🇳 Amayur East Vallur, Pattambi, Palakkad · India
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Cannabis
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Pattambi police broke up cannabis sales run from rented quarters housing a
family in Pattambi in Palakkad district.[1]Mandal lived with his family in
rented quarters at Amayur East Vallur.[1]A joint Pattambi police and DANSAF
squad search acting on secret information caught the suspect.[2]The team led
by Pattambi Sub-Inspector K. Fazil Rahman took him into custody.[2]
Police found 13 kilograms of cannabis from the man.[2]The cannabis had been
stored in the quarters for sale.[2]Live Palakkad likewise reported 13
kilograms recovered from the rented quarters.[3]Police said the seized
cannabis was worth lakhs on the market.[2]
Mandal worked in local concrete construction and allegedly used that work as
cover for bringing in cannabis from other states for sale.[1]He told police
that his friend Anoop Mandal supplied the cannabis from Coimbatore.[2]Police
are investigating whether a larger drug-mafia network is behind him.[2]Police
said anti-drug checks in the Pattambi area would be intensified.[2]
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Cannabis seized in Pattambi. Photo: ETV Bharat Source: ETV Bharat
The articles give no separate date for the search, so 3 November 2026, the earliest publication date, is used as the incident date while ETV Bharat published on 4 November 2026.
Police described the haul only as worth lakhs, so no market value is recorded.
No charges or court outcome were reported.
The sub-inspector is named Fazil Rahman by ETV Bharat with variant transliterations elsewhere, and this report uses ETV Bharat's spelling.
The Coimbatore supply account comes from the arrested man's statement to police, and no arrest of the alleged supplier was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ETV Bharat: West Bengal native Chabi Mandal, aged 56, was arrested.
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