Over 375 kg ganja seized in Pune in Jan-Aug 2026 drive
Pune police registered 504 drug cases and named 565 suspects between January and August 2026, seizing more than 375 kg of ganja alongside other narcotics. Police say the focus is now shifting from street sellers to the larger suppliers and ringleaders behind the trade.
Pune, considered a major centre for education, information technology and young
people, is facing a growing challenge from illegal drug trafficking.[1]Police
are carrying out continuous raids to stop the sale and trafficking of substances
including ganja, mephedrone (MD), charas and cocaine.[1]Between January and
August 2026, Pune police registered 504 drug-related cases in just eight months.[1]
During the same period the names of 565 suspects came to light.[1]Police
action seized more than 375 kg of ganja, along with more than five and a half kg
of mephedrone (MD) and about 14 kg of other narcotics.[1]
Police figures put NDPS Act cases at 111 in 2024, rising to 215 in 2025.[1]In
those 2025 cases 319 accused were arrested and drugs worth about 8.64 crore
rupees were seized.[1]Police say they now want to move beyond small sellers
and local smugglers to reach the larger suppliers and ringleaders behind them.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No separate date is given for the seizures; 31 August 2026, the end of the January-August period, is used as the incident date while 14 November 2026 is the publication date.
The ganja weight is reported as more than 375 kg, not an exact measured total.
The 565 people are described as suspects whose names came to light, not confirmed arrests for the 2026 period, so no arrested figure is recorded.
The 8.64 crore rupee value covers all drugs in 2025 cases and cannot be assigned to cannabis, so it is left out of figures.
More than 5.5 kg of mephedrone and about 14 kg of other narcotics in the same period are excluded from cannabis figures.
The whole account rests on police figures as reported by a single outlet, with no independent confirmation found.
Railway police arrested 19-year-old Niraj Kumar on platform 1 of Agartala Railway Station on 13 November 2026 and seized 5.525 kg of suspected ganja from his bag. Police valued the haul at about Rs 2.5 lakh and registered an NDPS case against him.
Railway police arrested two men on platform 1 of Agartala Railway Station on 13 November 2026 and seized 24.625 kg of suspected ganja from their bags. Police valued the haul at about Rs 12.5 lakh and registered an NDPS case against them.
Similiguda police seized 120 kg of ganja packed in 17 packets from a number-plate-less car found after an apparent accident at Koraguda junction in Koraput district. No one was arrested, and police said they were searching for the smugglers and investigating where the consignment came from and where it was headed.
Security guards newly posted at the district hospital in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, are screening patients and their relatives before entry and seized ganja from the pocket of one patient's relative. People caught bringing intoxicants into the hospital are handed over to the hospital police post or fined.
