Man and woman arrested with 2,550 grams of ganja in Shikohabad
Shikohabad police arrested Sameer, 23, of Etah district, and Sita, 35, of Shikohabad, with 2,550 grams of ganja on 27 October 2026 and impounded the white auto-rickshaw police said was used to carry it. A case was registered against both under the NDPS Act.
Police seized2,550 grams of ganja, the Hindi term for cannabis, from the two.[1]Officers also took a white auto-rickshaw that police said was used to carry
the drug.[2]
Sub-inspector Sonu Kumar’s team stopped them on the canal bank about 50 metres
from the bridge towards Station Road after a tip-off.[2]Sameer, son of Banti,
lives in Hindu Nagar, Gihar Colony, in the Kotwali police area of Etah district.[2]Sita, daughter of Veersahay, lives in Tehsil Tiraha, Gihar Colony,
Shikohabad.[2]Police said Sameer told them he brought ganja from Etawah and
sold it to Sita, who bought it and resold it in Shikohabad to earn money.[2]
The Hindusthan Samachar agency reported that police sent them to jail.[2]The
arrests came in a district campaign against drug trafficking ordered by senior
superintendent of police Aditya Langhe.[2]
Photos and video
A woman in a yellow sari and a young man in a blue shirt standing with two police officers, in the lead photograph on the Dainik Bhaskar report of the arrest. The page gives no caption or photographer credit.Photo details
The reports date the arrests only to Tuesday, the day they were published; no separate date or time for the operation was given.
No value was published for the 2,550 grams of ganja, and neither report gives a case number.
Dainik Bhaskar says both were produced in court while Hindusthan Samachar says they were sent to jail; neither names the court, the judge or any charges framed.
Only Dainik Bhaskar gives the suspects' ages, 23 and 35; Hindusthan Samachar gives their parents' names instead.
The Dainik Bhaskar page also carries a 39-second video that could not be checked, and its lead photograph has no caption or credit, so only the photograph is listed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Shikohabad police arrested Sameer, 23, and Sita, 35, near the Bhura canal bridge on 27 October 2026.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Sameer was carrying 1,580 grams and Sita 970 grams.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: A case was registered against both under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, India's main drug law, and both were produced in court.
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