Surat police arrest 320 in 257 narcotics cases in 2026 so far; 178 involve ganja
Surat City Police registered 257 narcotics cases and arrested 320 people in 2026 up to the end of October, 178 of the cases involving ganja and 219 arrests. Police seized 414 kg of ganja valued at Rs 1.92 crore, part of a haul worth Rs 3.34 crore across all 257 cases.
Surat City Police registered 257 narcotics cases and arrested 320 people in the
city in 2026 up to the end of October, data presented to the Narco Coordination
Centre (N-Cord) committee showed.[1]Ganja, the Indian term for cannabis,
accounted for the largest share: 178 of the 257 cases, in which 219 people were
arrested.[1]
Police reported seizing 414 kg of ganja and valued it at Rs 1.92 crore.[2]The
remaining cases involved MD drugs, hybrid ganja, brown sugar, heroin, opium,
poppy husk, codeine syrup and intoxicating tablets.[1]Across all 257 cases,
the substances seized were worth Rs 3.34 crore, police said.[1]
The meeting was chaired by Surat Police Commissioner Wabang Jamir.[1]N-Cord
brings together 25 departments and agencies, among them the Narcotics Control
Bureau, Customs, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Indian Coast
Guard.[1]The committee meets every month to review the previous month’s
action and plan the next period.[1]It also reviewed the NDPS squads set up at
every police station in Surat City on 22 April 2025 on the commissioner’s
orders.[1]Police said the squads had improved detection of cases under the
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, India’s main narcotics law.[1]
Offbeat Stories, a Gujarati news site, put Surat’s NDPS cases at 52 in 2024
against 257 in 2026.[3]
Photos and video
Police officers and officials at a meeting in Surat, seated beneath the Surat City Police emblem, in the lead image of the IANS report on the N-Cord figures.Photo details
The figures are a year-to-date total for Surat City in 2026 up to October, not one raid; IANS dates the meeting only to 'Thursday', taken here as 29 October 2026.
Both English accounts carry the same IANS text, so the totals rest on one wire report; a Gujarati-language account published a day earlier gives the same figures but puts the ganja haul at 'more than 414 kg'.
The 414 kg covers ganja only; police reported a further 778 g of 'hybrid ganja' in six cases as a separate line in their data.
No charges, convictions or court outcomes were reported for the 257 cases.
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.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.
A joint GRP, RPF and NCB team seized 31.15 kg of ganja in seven packets from a minor carrying two bags on train No. 19484 at Ara Junction. The child was sent to a remand home for production before the Juvenile Justice Board.