6 held as 500 kg ganja bound for Sri Lanka seized in Nagapattinam
Nagapattinam police arrested six people near Puthur on 1 February 2022 and seized 500 kg of ganja hidden under chicken feed. Police said the consignment had come from Andhra Pradesh and was bound for Akkaraipettai for smuggling to Sri Lanka by sea.
🇮🇳 Puthur, Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu · India
Nagapattinam police arrested six people near Puthur on 1 February 2022 and
seized500 kg of ganja allegedly bound for Sri Lanka by sea.[1]Nagapattinam
Superintendent of Police G. Jawahar said police acted on a tip-off about ganja
bundles being moved in vehicles.[1]A police team kept watch on vehicles
coming toward Nagapattinam on Tuesday morning and stopped two cars near the
Puthur roundabout.[2]
Officers found about 250 bundles weighing about 2 kg each, making up the 500 kg
haul.[1]The ganja was concealed under chicken feed in a pickup truck
travelling behind the two cars.[2]Police seized the 500 kg haul along with
the vehicles and arrested the six people.[1]Jawahar put the market value of
the seized drugs at over Rs 1 crore.[1]
Police said the group had smuggled the ganja from Andhra Pradesh via
Tiruvannamalai.[2]The consignment was to be taken to Akkaraipettai and then
smuggled to Sri Lanka by fishing boat.[2]The six suspects were produced
before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
6
Cannabis
500 kg
Vehicles confiscated
3
Value (official estimate)
INR 10,000,000
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (500 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Charged
Region
Tamil Nadu
Route
India → Sri Lanka
Sources
NDTVndtv.com500 Kg Ganja Bound For Sri Lanka Seized In Tamil Nadu, 6 Arrested
The reports say the interception happened on Tuesday; 1 February 2022, the NDTV publication date and a Tuesday, is used as the incident date.
NDTV says police impounded three cars, while The New Indian Express says police seized two cars and the pickup truck; three seized vehicles are recorded and the vehicle mix follows the more detailed account.
The New Indian Express describes the Indian-market value only as lakhs and the Sri Lankan-market value as crores; the recorded Rs 1 crore value follows the NDTV account of SP Jawahar.
NDTV mentions a separate 170 kg seizure by the same team on 18 January; that is a different recorded event and is left out here.
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.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.