Four held with 40 kg of ganja at Siliguri's Tenzing Norgay bus terminus
Acting on a secret tip-off, police of the Pradhan Nagar station of the Siliguri Metropolitan Police arrested four young men at Siliguri's Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus and recovered 40 kg of ganja from their four bags. All four, reported to live in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar, had been waiting to board a bus for southern Bengal and were to be produced before the Siliguri court on Tuesday.
🇮🇳 Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus, Siliguri, West Bengal · India
- Arrested
- 4
- Cannabis
- 40 kg
Police from the Pradhan Nagar station of the Siliguri Metropolitan Police
arrested four people for possessing 40 kg of ganja in Siliguri.[1]
According to police sources, the four had been waiting in the Siliguri Junction
area to catch a bus to Dakshinbanga, the Bengali name for the southern part of
Bengal.[1] They were to be produced before the Siliguri court on Tuesday.[1]
Sources
- Siliguri | শিলিগুড়ির তেনজিং নোরগে বাস টার্মিনাস থেকে উদ্ধার ৪০ কেজি গাঁজা, ধৃত ৪. Uttarbanga Sambad, 5 May 2025. In Bangla.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives no separate date for the arrests; 5 May 2025 is its publication date, and the four were to be produced before the Siliguri court on the Tuesday that followed.
- No charge, court outcome or market value for the seized ganja was reported.
- Siliguri Times and BNN Bangla appear to have reported the same arrests on 6 May 2025, but their pages could not be opened in this session, so this draft rests on a single opened source.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Uttarbanga Sambad: Acting on information from a secret source, officers carried out the operation at the Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus in Siliguri and arrested the four young men as they waited for a bus.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Uttarbanga Sambad: Searching the four bags they had with them, the police recovered 40 kg of ganja, the word used in Bengali for cannabis.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Uttarbanga Sambad: The arrested were named as Dipchand Barman, Azizul Rahman, Duryodhan Das and Sanjay Das, each of them reported to have a home in Sitalkuchi, in Cooch Behar.