23-year-old held with 852 g charas on bus in Bilaspur
Bilaspur police arrested 23-year-old Sachin from Haryana's Sonipat district after seizing 852 grams of charas from him on a bus near Karmala. The Special Detection Team made the recovery at a roadblock on the Kiratpur-Nerchowk four-lane and registered a case under the NDPS Act at Swarghat police station.
🇮🇳 Near Karmala on Kiratpur-Nerchowk four-lane, Swarghat, Bilaspur · India
Bilaspur police arrested 23-year-old Sachin from Sonipat, Haryana, after finding
charas in his possession on a passenger bus.[1][2]He was identified as a
resident of village Panchijattan, tehsil Ghanour, district Sonipat.[1]The
detention was part of the district police campaign against drugs.[3][2]Police
registered a case against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (NDPS) Act, including Section 20, at Swarghat police station.[3][2]
The Special Detection Team had set up a roadblock near Karmala on the
Kiratpur-Nerchowk four-lane highway and stopped the bus for checking.[1][2]The
checkpoint search of the bus took place on 3 November.[3][2]During the search,
officers recovered 852 grams of charas from the man travelling on the bus.[1][2]
Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Abhishek Dhiman said investigators are tracing
the source and supply chain of the seized charas.[1]Police are examining
backward and forward linkages to identify other people linked to the
trafficking.[1][2]Police said further action in the case is under way.[3]
Police arrested the young man from Haryana with the charas, and a case was registered against him at Swarghat police station under the NDPS Act.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Amar Ujala article gives no separate date for the roadblock and was published on 5 November 2026; 3 November 2026 from the second account is used as the incident date.
No court outcome, custody status or further charges beyond the NDPS case were reported.
No valuation of the seized charas was published.
Punjabi Jagran files the arrest under Ropar district and names the road as National Highway 205 near Karmala, while the Bilaspur accounts place the same checkpoint and Swarghat police station case in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh.
No court outcome, custody status or valuation of the seized charas was reported.
The Punjabi Jagran photo shows two uniformed men standing over a seated suspect and is captioned as the arrest, but it names no agency or credit and does not show the charas.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Punjabi Jagran: He was identified as a resident of village Panchijattan, tehsil Ghanour, district Sonipat.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
