Two arrested as Solapur crime branch seizes 96.91 kg of ganja
Solapur city crime branch officers arrested two people after finding 96.91 kg of wet ganja, packed in 48 taped packets, in a house in Bharat Nagar near Kumbha Naka on 28 October 2026. Police valued the ganja at 4,845,500 rupees and registered a case at Sadar Bazaar police station against Mujammil Altaf Shaikh, 20, and Nilofar Irfan Shaikh, 39.
Solapur city crime branch officers seized96 kg910 g of ganja from a house in
Bharat Nagar and arrested two people.[1]Police named them as Mujammil Altaf
Shaikh, 20, and Nilofar Irfan Shaikh, 39, both of house number 400 near the
Bharat Nagar sports complex at Kumbha Naka.[2]Officers on patrol near the
sports complex on 28 October 2026 saw a man filling a bag with suspicious
material outside a house.[1]A police constable searched him and found ganja
with buds in the bag.[2]Questioned, the man admitted that more ganja was
stored in the house.[2]
Police raided the house, found Nilofar Shaikh there, and seized 48 packets of
ganja packed in plastic tape.[2]A forensic team confirmed that the seized
stock was ganja.[2]Police valued the ganja at 4,845,500 rupees, about 48.45
lakh.[2]With a mobile phone worth 25,000 rupees, the property seized came to
4,870,500 rupees.[2]
A case was registered at Sadar Bazaar police station, and assistant police
inspector Bharat Chandanshive is investigating.[2]Police commissioner M.
Rajkumar launched the anti-drug campaign that the operation formed part of.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Pudhari gives the ganja's value as 48 lakh 45 thousand rupees (4,845,000), while Loksatta gives 4,845,500; the report uses Loksatta's figure.
Only Pudhari dates the operation, to 28 October 2026; Loksatta's account gives no date for the raid.
Neither report says what sections the two were charged under or whether they appeared before a magistrate.
No detail was published on where the ganja was grown or how it reached Solapur.
Loksatta's page also carries a separate report on Solapur rural police's ten-month drug haul, which is not part of this event.
The Pudhari page's lead photograph is a posed group photo of police officers rather than a picture of the seized ganja, so no image of the event was listed as media.
Government Railway Police seized 16 kg of ganja from an abandoned bag on an express train at Katpadi railway station in Vellore. Two commuters fled when officers checked the train under Operation Narcos, and GRP Katpadi registered a case.
Bengaluru city police seized 46 kg and 486 grams of ganja and 1 litre and 542 millilitres of hashish oil in raids across eleven police-station areas, an operation in which they arrested 34 people. Police valued all the narcotics seized, including MDMA and cocaine, at Rs 12.61 crore and registered cases under the NDPS Act.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.