One held with 8.86 kg of ganja in a Pune crime-branch sweep
Pune crime branch anti-narcotics team 2 detained 19-year-old Altaf alias Ayaz Akbar Shaikh in Wanwadi and seized 8 kg 860 g of ganja that police valued at 4.43 lakh rupees. In the same operation the team picked up a man wanted for about a year in a Wanwadi drugs case and detained an illegal liquor seller in Kondhwa, for whom no cannabis was reported.
🇮🇳 Gosavi Vasti, New MHADA colony, Wanwadi, Pune, Maharashtra · India
Officers of anti-narcotics team 2 of the Pune city crime branch stopped a
motorcycle at the New MHADA building in Gosavi Vasti, Wanwadi, and detained
19-year-old Altaf alias Ayaz Akbar Shaikh of New MHADA colony, Hadapsar.[1][2]
A search of his bag and the motorcycle’s storage box found 8 kg860 g of ganja,
which police said was worth 4 lakh43 thousand rupees.[1][2]Police were
registering a case at Wanwadi police station.[1][2]
The team also detained Imran Tanveer Shaikh, 29, who police said had been on the
run for about a year in a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act case
registered at Wanwadi police station, after a tip that he had come home.[1][2]
The same crime-branch operation detained Faiju Kadar Shaikh, 53, of Kamela,
Kondhwa, after a raid on the illegal sale of country liquor under a pipal tree
beside the Slater House wall in Kamela, Kondhwa, where police seized country
liquor bottles valued at 8,110 rupees and cash.[1][2]
The patrolling began on 3 November 2026 in the Kondhwa area under senior police
inspector Jeevan Mane, with assistant police inspector Afroz Pathan leading the
team, under additional commissioner Tejaswi Satpute, deputy commissioner Gauhar
Hasan and assistant commissioner Shankar Khatke.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
8.86 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 443,000
Agency
Pune city crime branch, anti-narcotics team 2
Agency type
Police, Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (8.86 kg)
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Maharashtra
Date
Approximate
Sources
Pune Prime Newspuneprimenews.comMRपुण्यात गुन्हे शाखेची धडक कारवाई! वर्षभरापासून फरार असलेला आरोपी जेरबंद; ४ लाख ४३ हजारांचा गांजा जप्त
Pune Prime Newspuneprimenews.comMRपुणे पोलिसांच्या अंमली पदार्थ विरोधी पथकाची मोठी कारवाई! फरार आरोपीसह अवैध दारू विक्रेता ताब्यात, ८.८६ किलो गांजा जप्त
Open questions the AI reported
Only Pune Prime News, a single local outlet, reported this operation; a police statement or second outlet could not be found.
The article gives no separate date for the Wanwadi trap; it says only that patrolling began on 3 November 2026, which is used as the incident date while 7 November 2026 is the publication date.
The article does not say how many men were on the motorcycle or whether the second rider was detained.
No case number, charge sections, custody decision or court outcome was published.
The operation also detained a man wanted in an earlier Wanwadi NDPS case and an illegal liquor seller in Kondhwa; the earlier drugs case is not detailed and the liquor arrest is a separate, non-cannabis matter.
This second Pune Prime News page, published the same day as the report's cited article, gives the same operation but does not add a police statement or a second outlet; the search found none.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
