Youth held with 1 kg of ganja at Ponpadi checkpost, Tiruttani
Police at the Ponpadi checkpost stopped a two-wheeler from Nagari and seized 1 kg of ganja. The 21-year-old rider, Boopathy of Tiruttani, was arrested and is being questioned.
🇮🇳 Ponpadi checkpost, Tiruttani, Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu · India
Tiruttani police led by Inspector Sivakumar were conducting vehicle checks at
the Ponpadi checkpost near Tiruttani on Sunday.[1]During the checks they
stopped a two-wheeler travelling from the Nagari area of Andhra Pradesh toward
Tiruttani on suspicion and searched it.[1][2]The search revealed 1 kg of ganja,
the local term for cannabis, being smuggled on the vehicle.[1]Police seized
the ganja and questioned the rider, who was identified as Boopathy, aged 21, of
Saraswati Nagar in Tiruttani.[1][2]Officers then arrested Boopathy and are
continuing to question him, with no other rider or occupant reported.[1]
Dinamalar confirms the same seizure and arrest, reporting that 1 kg of ganja was
seized and that Boopathy, 21, of Saraswati Nagar was arrested.[3]Dinamalar
reports the checks followed a tip-off that ganja was being smuggled from Andhra
Pradesh into Tamil Nadu through Tiruttani.[3]
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No street value, vehicle registration, case section, or court outcome was published.
The reports give the checks as Sunday and 1 November 2026; 1 November is used as the incident date.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dinamani: Tiruttani police led by Inspector Sivakumar were conducting vehicle checks at the Ponpadi checkpost near Tiruttani on Sunday.
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