Man, 30, arrested with 1.5 kg of ganja in Moonangaradi, Salem
Annadanapatti police arrested Sathish, a 30-year-old man from Dadhagapatti, after a patrol stop in Moonangaradi and seized 1.5 kilograms of ganja he had been keeping to sell. The stop was the day before yesterday relative to a 12 November 2026 Salem dateline.
🇮🇳 Moonangaradi, Annadanapatti, Salem, Tamil Nadu · India
Annadanapatti police in Salem were on patrol in Moonangaradi the day before
yesterday when they detained a man who was standing in a way that raised their
suspicion.[1]Questioning identified him as Sathish, a 30-year-old man from
Dadhagapatti.[1]He had been standing in a manner that made the patrolling
officers suspicious before they detained him and began the questioning that
established his name, his age of 30 and his home in Dadhagapatti.[1]
A search of Sathish showed that he had been keeping 1.5 kilograms of ganja in a
plastic cover in order to sell it.[1]Ganja, the name given to the drug the
officers seized from him, is cannabis.[1]The Annadanapatti police arrested
him and seized that ganja.[1]
The officers who patrolled Moonangaradi were the ones who detained him,
questioned him, searched him, arrested him and took the 1.5 kilograms of ganja.[1]Sathish, aged 30, is from Dadhagapatti, and the ganja was found on him
during that search, packed in a plastic cover he had been keeping for sale.[1]The place named for the patrol and the stop is Moonangaradi, in the area worked
by the Annadanapatti police in Salem.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The patrol is dated only as the day before yesterday from a 12 November 2026 Salem dateline, so 10 November 2026 is that reading rather than a named calendar day.
No charge, case number, remand or court outcome was reported.
No value was given for the 1.5 kilograms of ganja.
The coordinates are for Annadanapatti in Salem; the named patrol spot Moonangaradi was not separately located.
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