5 kg ganja seized from unclaimed bag on Salem train check
Railway police seized 5 kg of ganja from an unclaimed bag on the Dhanbad–Alappuzha Express between Karuppur and Salem on 2 November 2026. The same drive found 6 kg of tobacco products on another express, and the seizures were handed to Salem Railway Police with no arrests reported.
🇮🇳 Karuppur–Salem railway, Salem, Tamil Nadu · India
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Cannabis
5 kg
Special-team officers led by Prabhakaran and Tamilselvan carried out the
previous day’s railway checks.[1] The team inspected the Dhanbad–Alappuzha
Express.[1] Officers boarded at Karuppur and checked the train as far as
Salem.[1] In the rear general coach an unattended bag near the toilet held 5
kg of ganja.[1] The special team seized the 5 kg of ganja.[1] No suspect was
named or arrested for the railway recoveries, which were described as unclaimed.[1] Salem Railway Inspector Thilagavathi registered a case and is
investigating.[1]
In the same drive the team checked the Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Express and found 6
kg of tobacco products in an unattended plastic cover in the rear unreserved
coach.[1] The officers handed the seized ganja and tobacco products to the
Salem Railway Police.[1] The 6 kg tobacco haul is not cannabis and is excluded
from the cannabis quantity in this report.[1]
Railway police formed the special team to stop narcotics moving by train from
northern states via Salem to Kerala.[1] The checks happened on 2 November
2026.[1]
The incident date of 2 November 2026 is inferred from yesterday relative to the 3 November 2026 publication.
No suspect was named and no arrest was reported for the railway seizures, which were described as unclaimed.
The 6 kg of tobacco products is not cannabis and is excluded from the cannabis figure, with no combined weight counted as cannabis.
The same page also reports a separate 1.2 kg ganja arrest by Hasthampatti police near Johnsonpettai, which is a different event left out of this report.
Only one outlet account could be opened and no police statement or second report was found.
No estimated value was published for the seized ganja.
No photograph of this seizure could be identified on the page, so no media entry is included.
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