Three held with 2.587 kg ganja in Ujjain Operation Prahar sweep
Ujjain police arrested three men in separate stops in Khachraud, Bhatpachlana and Nanakheda under Operation Prahar, seizing 2.587 kg of ganja. Police said the three were caught with 752 grams, 549 grams and 1.286 kilograms, and NDPS cases were registered against all of them.
Ujjain police arrested three men with a combined 2.587 kilograms of ganja, the
Hindi word for cannabis, in three separate stops under Operation Prahar.[1]Khachraud police detained 35-year-old Mangal near the railway culvert on
Bhatkhedi Road and seized752 grams of ganja from him.[1]Bhatpachlana police
caught 41-year-old Rakesh near the railway gate with 549 grams.[1]Nanakheda
police caught 38-year-old Monu, also known as Kushal Singh, near the Engineering
College Ground with 1.286 kilograms.[1]
The three weights add up to the 2.587 kilograms police reported seizing in the
three cases.[1]The stops were at different places in Ujjain district, and
police said they registered NDPS cases in all three.[1]
Police said Mangal, a resident of Nayapara in the Sarangi police station area of
Jhabua district, was running a ganja trade from Station Road in Khachraud.[1]Rakesh is a resident of Maulana in Badnagar, and Monu of Patel Nagar in the
Chimanganj Mandi station area.[1]The arrests were part of Operation Prahar, a
continuing police drive against drug traffickers.[1]
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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.
Viluppuram taluk police stopped a 22-year-old man during a patrol in Ainamplayam village on 11 November 2026 and seized 1.300 kg of ganja from him. He was arrested after police found he had kept the cannabis for sale and registered a case.
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.
