Two Amritsar men held with 484 g of charas at Chamba checkpoint
Police at Tunuhatti, the checkpoint at the entrance to Chamba district, found 484 grams of charas in a scooter's storage box on 30 October 2026 and took the two men riding it into custody. Both were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and police said the investigation was continuing.
🇮🇳 Tunuhatti, Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Police at Tunuhatti, the checkpoint at the entrance to Chamba district in
Himachal Pradesh, found 484 grams of charas in the storage box of a scooter.[1]The two men riding it were taken into custody.[1]Police identified them
as Shubham Narang, 28, son of Rajan Narang, and Kunal Malli, 20, son of Rakesh
Malli, both residents of Kanak Mandi in Amritsar, Punjab.[1]
The stop was made on Friday, 30 October 2026, by a joint team from the Bakloh
police post and the Tunuhatti checkpoint that was checking vehicles on the road.[1]Officers stopped a scooter travelling from Banikhet towards Punjab and
searched it after the two riders began to panic.[1]
Police seized the charas at the spot and registered a case against both men at
Chuwadi police station under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act,
India’s narcotics law.[1]Superintendent of Police Vijay Kumar Saklani
confirmed the case and said police had begun further investigation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one account of the stop was found, the Punjab Kesari Himachal report, which rests on the police account; no second outlet or separate police statement could be opened.
The report dates the stop only to Friday, the day it was published, 30 October 2026; it gives no time of day.
No value was published for the 484 grams of charas.
No court date or outcome is known, and the report does not say whether the two men were produced before a magistrate.
The article's lead picture is a stock 'Demo Pic' of handcuffed hands, not a photograph of this seizure, so no picture is linked.
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