Man arrested with 604 g of charas near Sataun bus stand in Sirmaur
SIU Nahan officers arrested Narayan Singh, a resident of Kandi Sundaradi village in Shillai tehsil, after finding 604 grams of charas on him near Sataun bus stand in Sirmaur district on 30 October 2026. Police registered a case at Puruwala police station under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating where the charas came from.
🇮🇳 Sataun bus stand, Sataun, Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Officers from the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) in Nahan arrested Narayan
Singh, a resident of Kandi Sundaradi village in Shillai tehsil of Sirmaur
district, after finding 604 grams of charas, a cannabis resin, on him near
Sataun bus stand.[1][2]The arrest was made on 30 October 2026, when the team was
patrolling the area.[1][3]The team received a tip that a man in the area was
selling charas, police said.[1][3]Officers searched him, recovered the charas
and took him into custody.[1]
Police registered a case against Singh at Puruwala police station under the
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, India’s main drug law.[1][2]They said the investigation was continuing and that other facts would be
confirmed only after it was complete.[1]Police were trying to establish where
the charas came from and whether other people were involved in the trade.[4]
Sataun is in the Puruwala police station area of Sirmaur district.[4]Sirmaur
police said their campaign against the illegal drug trade in the district would
continue.[4]
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The accused with the police team after his arrest at Sataun bus stand. Photo: MBM News NetworkPhoto details
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No value for the 604 grams of charas was published.
No report says whether Singh was produced before a magistrate, when the case will be heard or what the court outcome was.
The two articles carry near-identical wording from what appears to be the same police release, so they are not independent confirmation.
The reports do not give the exact location of Sataun bus stand; the coordinates are for Sataun town.
Himachal Now News gives no separate date for the arrest; its report was published on 1 November 2026, while Dainik Janvarta dates the arrest to 30 October 2026.
The same police statement covered a separate 4.74 gram heroin seizure at Haripurdhar, a different event left out of this report.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
