Puranpur man arrested with 2.06 kg of ganja under cover of father's bhang licence
Police in Puranpur, in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, arrested 24-year-old Shivam alias Mithu on Friday 30 October 2026 with 2.060 kg of ganja, which they say he sold under cover of his father's licensed bhang shop. A case was registered under the NDPS Act, he was sent to jail, and police asked the excise department to cancel the shop's licence.
🇮🇳 Puranpur, Pilibhit district, Uttar Pradesh · India
Police in Puranpur, in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district, arrested 24-year-old
Shivam alias Mithu on Friday 30 October 2026.[1]Acting on a tip-off, officers
stopped him at the roadways bus stand on Pilibhit Road.[1][2]A search found
2.060 kg of ganja on him.[1][2]Hindustan put the weight at two kilos.[3]
Police say Shivam worked as a salesman at his father’s licensed bhang shop.[1]The shop, near Banda crossing, is licensed in the name of his father,
Chandrabhan Gupta.[3][4]Police said ganja sales from the licensed shop had been
going on for a long time.[3][4]Police allege the sales were made under cover of
the bhang licence.[1][4]Shivam lives in Kayasthan Ward No. 9 in Puranpur.[1]
Police registered a case against him under the NDPS Act and sent him to jail.[3][4]Dainik Bhaskar gave the case number as 449/2026 and said he was produced in
court at 4 pm on Friday.[1]Police have written to the excise department
asking it to cancel the shop’s bhang licence.[3][2][4]
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The image caption says police caught Shivam alias Mithu at the Roadways bus stand on Pilibhit Road.Photo details
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIपूरनपुर में 2.060 किलो गांजे के साथ युवक गिरफ्तार:भांग की दुकान की आड़ में गांजा बेचने का आरोप, लाइसेंस निरस्त कराने को भेजा पत्र
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIपूरनपुर में 2.060 किलो गांजे के साथ युवक गिरफ्तार:भांग की दुकान की आड़ में गांजा बेचने का आरोप, लाइसेंस निरस्त कराने को भेजा पत्र
Hindustan says the tip-off and arrest came on Thursday; Dainik Bhaskar, which gives the case number and the court production, says Friday 30 October 2026, the date used here.
Hindustan gives the weight as two kilos and Dainik Bhaskar as 2.060 kg; the report uses 2.060 kg.
No court outcome beyond his production was reported, and the reports do not say whether charges were framed.
The Hindustan report also covers a separate seizure of banned narcotic capsules from a Mandi Road warehouse three days earlier, a different event left out here.
No photograph of the arrest or the seized ganja was published; the Hindustan page's only image is a Pilibhit district banner.
Whether the excise department acted on the police request to cancel the shop's licence was not reported.
The embedded video lacks an asset-specific caption confirming that its footage depicts the arrest.
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