Bengal migrant worker held with 1.106 kg of ganja at Pazhayangadi, Kannur
Police in Pazhayangadi, Kannur district, arrested a 25-year-old worker from West Bengal, Biswajit Mandal, and seized 1.106 kg of ganja from him. A DANSAF team under the Kannur City Police Commissioner made the arrest in the early hours of 12 November 2026 near the Amayi level crossing.
🇮🇳 Pazhayangadi railway under bridge, Amayi, Kannur district, Kerala · India
Arrested
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Cannabis
1.106 kg
Police in Pazhayangadi, in Kerala’s Kannur district, arrested a 25-year-old man
from West Bengal and seized1.106 kilograms of ganja from him.[1]Police
identified him as Biswajit Mandal, a native of Bangsar in Murshidabad, and
described him as a labourer from another state.[1]The arrest was made in the
early hours of 12 November 2026, in front of the Amayi level crossing under the
Pazhayangadi railway under bridge.[1]
A DANSAF team working under the control of the Kannur City Police Commissioner
made the arrest together with the Pazhayangadi station house officer, a grade
sub-inspector and a civil police officer.[1]A second Malayalam news outlet
published the same account of the arrest.[2]
Photos and video
Photo published with the arrest report, captioned by Kerala Online News as a man from Bengal arrested in Pazhayangadi with over a kilogram of ganja.Photo details
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