3 held with 22 kg of ganja on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway
Rajkot crime branch seized 22 kg of ganja hidden under groundnut sacks in a truck near Bamanbor village and arrested three Gondal residents. Police valued the ganja at Rs 10.94 lakh and registered an NDPS case against five people, naming two more alleged organisers.
🇮🇳 Bamanbor village, Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, Gujarat · India
Rajkot city crime brancharrested Farid Baloch (27), Mehbub Dodhiya (58) and
Hasmukh Agrawat (46), all residents of Gondal, seizing 22 kg of ganja worth Rs
10.94 lakh from an Eicher truck near Bamanbor village on the Rajkot-Ahmedabad
highway.[1]Acting on an Oct 30 tip-off that three persons were moving ganja
from Ahmedabad towards Rajkot in a white Eicher truck, a team laid a trap in the
Airport police station jurisdiction and intercepted truck GJ06AV3000 approaching
from Chotila at around 12.30pm.[1]A case under the NDPS Act was registered
against five persons.[1]
The ganja was concealed beneath sacks of groundnut in plastic bags containing
plant material, including stems and leaves, and FSL officials were called to
examine the substance.[1]Police said the truck, the ganja, the groundnut
sacks, mobile phones and cash together were worth Rs 27.72 lakh.[1]During
questioning, Mehbub and Hasmukh allegedly told police that Javid Makrani and
Salman Baloch, both from Gondal, had arranged the consignment at a Kathiyawadi
hotel in Vyara, promising the trio Rs 30,000 per trip for delivery to Javid’s
associate near the Gondal APMC market yard.[1]
Case data
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The article gives Oct 30 as the tip-off date and describes the 12.30pm interception without stating a separate raid date; 2026-10-30 is used as the incident date while 1 November 2026 is the publication date.
Only one opened source was found; no agency statement or second outlet corroboration was available.
The Rs 27.72 lakh total includes the truck, groundnut sacks, phones and cash; only the Rs 10.94 lakh ganja value is counted as drug value.
No remand, charge-sheet or court outcome was reported, and the two additional men named as organisers were not reported arrested in this account.
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