Manipur burns 4,110 kg of seized ganja at Pungdongbam
Police and Narcotics and Affairs of Border officers burned 4,110.84 kg of ganja seized in 32 cases between 1997 and 2013 at Pungdongbam, Imphal East, on 28 June 2014. A court-ordered disposal committee supervised the bonfire; opium and heroin in custody awaited separate orders.
Police and Narcotics and Affairs of Border (NAB) officers burned 4,110.84 kilograms of seizedganja at Pungdongbam Mamang Chingkhong in Imphal East district on 28 June 2014.[1][2]The stock had been seized by NAB and Manipur Police from various places in the state between 1997 and 2013 and was set on fire in a bonfire at Kangla Haobi Lampak ground under Lamlai police station.[1][2]
A disposal committee headed by Kh Chandramani, Deputy Inspector General (Range IV), supervised the burning after a court order permitted disposal of the long-held stock.[1]NAB Superintendent S. Gautam, Additional SP Hussne Jamal and Lamlai station officers were present at the bonfire.[1][2]Officers said the ganja was worth more than Rs 20 lakh in the local market and had been registered across 32 cases.[1][2]
The same committee still held 19.88 kilograms of opium and 5.5 kilograms of heroin awaiting court permission for disposal, which fall outside this cannabis report.[1][2]The opened reports describe no arrests, charges or trial outcomes connected to the 32 ganja cases.[1][2]
Case data
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Bengaluru city police seized 46 kg and 486 grams of ganja and 1 litre and 542 millilitres of hashish oil in raids across eleven police-station areas, an operation in which they arrested 34 people. Police valued all the narcotics seized, including MDMA and cocaine, at Rs 12.61 crore and registered cases under the NDPS Act.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.