Ganja seller breaks leg fleeing police; 21 kg seized in Tambaram
Selaiyur police arrested a man they identified as Martin and seized 21 kg of ganja he was selling at the Puthuvancheri cremation ground in Tambaram, Tamil Nadu. He fractured his left leg while jumping the ground's compound wall to escape and was treated at the Tambaram district government headquarters hospital before being produced in court and jailed.
🇮🇳 Puthuvancheri cremation ground, Selaiyur, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu · India
Selaiyur police went to the Puthuvancheri cremation ground in Tambaram, Tamil
Nadu, after a secret tip that ganja, or cannabis, was being sold inside their
police station limits.[1]Officers rushed to the spot, and when they tried to
catch the man selling the drug there, he ran as soon as he saw them.[1]
He tried to escape by jumping over the cremation ground’s compound wall.[1]He
fell and fractured his left leg.[1]Police picked him up as he lay in pain and
took him to the Tambaram district government headquarters hospital.[1]There
his leg was put in a plaster cast as first aid.[1]
The investigation identified him as Martin and found that 22 criminal cases,
including murder and robbery, were pending against him.[1]Police seized the
21 kg of ganja that he had kept with him for sale.[1]They arrested him,
produced him before a court and jailed him.[1]
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Police in Minjur, Thiruvallur district, arrested a 25-year-old man from Nandiyambakkam on 11 November 2026 on suspicion of selling cannabis near the Minjur railway station. Officers patrolling the area stopped and questioned him, then seized 1.200 kg of cannabis in packets from him.
Crime Branch officers in Indore arrested a flower seller with 4.503 kg of ganja near Bhandari Bridge, police said. He was booked under the NDPS Act and questioned about his supply network; eight earlier criminal cases were already registered against him.
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.
