Police in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, arrested a truck driver and seized 60.525 kg of ganja, or cannabis, hidden among sacks of cashew husks in his Eicher canter.[1] The driver, Rishi Kumar Yadav, is a resident of Kishanpur village in the Kotwali Dehat police station area of Etah district.[2] Officers from the Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) unit in Meerut, the Special Operations Group (SOG) and Robertsganj police stopped the canter at a vehicle check near Churk Mor late on Monday 26 October 2026.[2] The check followed information about a cannabis consignment, police said.[3]

They found the cannabis packed in three plastic sacks among the sacks of cashew husks.[2] Police valued the consignment at about Rs 30.25 lakh.[1] Yadav told police he had collected it in the Bhubaneswar area of Odisha and was to hand it to a person in Etah.[2] A man from Odisha supplied the canter and offered him Rs 40,000 on top of his fee, police said.[3]

Police said Yadav had brought cannabis this way before.[3] They said cases including fraud and arms offences had been registered against him at Kotwali Dehat in Etah.[3] Police registered a first information report (FIR) at Robertsganj police station under the NDPS Act, India’s main drug law, and Amar Ujala reported that Yadav was challaned, or sent to court, on Tuesday.[3] Police said they were trying to identify others involved in the smuggling network.[2]