Rishikesh Kotwali police arrested a 40-year-old woman, Sabri Devi, during a checking drive near the Chandrabhaga river in Rishikesh on 5 November 2026.[1] Police in Dehradun district said they arrested two people, a woman among them, in separate operations and recovered 2 kg 790 g of ganja and 464 g of charas in all.[2]

Sub-Inspector Jyoti Sharma and Constable Vineet Kumar were patrolling and checking the slum area by the river when they saw her standing by a peepal tree with a white plastic bag and turn back towards a lane when she noticed the police team.[3] Officers stopped and searched her and found two packets wrapped in brown tape in the bag, containing 2 kg 790 g of ganja.[3] Police said she made up sachets of ganja and sold them, and that in questioning she said she collected the drug from another woman living in Rishikesh.[3] She refused to say where the ganja had come from, police said.[3]

Police registered a case against her at Rishikesh police station under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act, India’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, as case 580/2026, and said they were checking her criminal history.[1] She was being produced before a court as required, Punjab Kesari reported.[3] The arrest was one of two operations that Dehradun district police reported on the same day, the other being a charas seizure in Vikasnagar, carried out under a district campaign against drug trafficking and sale ordered by the Dehradun senior superintendent of police.[1]