Rajkot crime branch arrests three Gondal peddlers with 21 kg of ganja
Rajkot city crime branch officers stopped a truck on the Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway near Bamanbor and arrested three Gondal residents with 21.892 kg of ganja hidden among groundnut sacks. Police valued the drug at about Rs 10.94 lakh and named two more Gondal men, still at large, in a network of five.
🇮🇳 Bamanbor village, Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, Rajkot district, Gujarat · India
Rajkot city crime branch officers seized21 kg of ganja that had been hidden
among groundnut and peanut sacks in a truck delivering it to Rajkot from Odisha.[1]The truck was stopped by crime branch officers on the Rajkot-Ahmedabad
highway near Bamambor.[1]
Officers arrested three drug peddlers from Gondal with the 21 kg of ganja.[1]
The team acted on a tip-off and moved on the Bamanbor village patiya near
Rajkot, where police found the ganja among sacks of groundnut.[2]
Officers stopped an Ishar truck in front of the Airport police station
checkpoint near Bamambor on the Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway and searched it.[3]
The search found 21 kg892 g of ganja, which police valued at about Rs 10.94
lakh.[3]Police also seized the truck, a mobile phone and the groundnut sacks,
bringing the total value of property seized to over Rs 27 lakh.[3]
Police named the three arrested men as Farid Bloch, Mehboob Dodhia and Hasmukh
Agravat, residents of Gondal.[2]
Five people in all were found to be involved in the trafficking network, and the
other two, Javed Makrani and Salman Bloch, remain at large.[2]The other two
accused, Javed Makrani and Salman Bloch, escaped the police and crime branch
officers are searching for them.[2]Police took legal custody of the three
arrested men and continued investigating the wider network behind the
consignment.[2]
Photos and video
Lead photo published with the Divya Bhaskar report on the Bamanbor ganja seizure, captioned "3 પેડલર ઝડપાયા" (3 peddlers caught).Photo details
Divya Bhaskar gives no date for the interception; its page says the report is 8 days old against a 31 October 2026 publication, so 30 October 2026 is used as an approximate incident date.
Divya Bhaskar rounds the quantity to 21 kg while GSTV gives 21 kg 892 g; the report uses the precise figure and keeps the rounded one in the text.
The names of the three arrested men and the two wanted men are spelled differently across accounts (Farid Bloch/Farid Baloch, Mehboob Dodhia/Mehbub Dodhiya, Hasmukh Agravat/Hasmukh Agrawat, Javid/Salman Baloch), so the spelling of the arrested men follows Sandesh while the text uses Javed Makrani and Salman Bloch as spelled there.
The Sandesh page reports a police operation at the Bamanbor village patiya without stating whether the truck was moving or parked when it was stopped.
No NDPS case registration, charge sheet, bail or court outcome was reported by any of the three accounts.
Police did not say whether the groundnut sacks were part of the cover load or ordinary cargo, and no weight was given for the sacks or the phone.
Only the Divya Bhaskar lead photo could be linked to a direct image address; the Sandesh and GSTV pages carry their own thumbnails, so one photo is listed.
Left out case stage, as its quotation was not found in Sandesh.
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