Five held with ganja in Uthukkottai taluk checks; 100 g in two cases
Police in Uthukkottai taluk, Thiruvallur district, arrested five men on 4 November 2026 in separate stops for ganja possession, including one at the Andhra Pradesh border checkpost and one at a bazaar. Two seizures were reported at 100 grams each and the other three without a stated weight.
🇮🇳 Uthukkottai, Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu · India
Arrested
5
Cannabis
200 g
Police arrested five men for alleged ganja smuggling and possession in
Uthukkottai taluk, Thiruvallur district, on 4 November 2026.[1]Officers of
the Uthukkottai police station were checking vehicles at the checkpost on the
Tamil Nadu–Andhra Pradesh border.[1]They stopped a man who was walking past
suspiciously and found 100 grams of ganja on him.[1]He was identified as
Sathish, 25, of Annai Teresa Nagar, Palavakkam.[1]At Kannigaipair bazaar,
Periyapalayam police seized another 100 grams of ganja from Sankar, 25, of the
same area, and arrested him.[1]
Checks at Karikalavakkam bus stand and Anaikattu led to the arrests of two
24-year-old men, both named Akash, one from Karikalavakkam and one from
Ammanambakkam, who had ganja with them.[1]Kadambathur police patrolling near
Ekattur railway station arrested Manikandan, 28, of Indira Nagar, Ekattur, for
possessing ganja.[2]
No weights were published for the Karikalavakkam-Anaikattu or Ekattur seizures, so 0.2 kg records only the two stated 100-gram amounts.
No charges, custody remand or court outcome were reported for any of the five arrests.
4 November 2026 is taken as the incident date from the article's 'today (Nov. 4)' wording and its 4 November 2026 date stamp; no time of day was given.
The only accessible accounts are Dinamalar's standard and AMP pages, which carry the same text, so the report rests on a single outlet.
The page images are unrelated sidebar video thumbnails, so no photograph of this event could be linked.
Two of the accused share the name Akash and are distinguished only by their villages, Karikalavakkam and Ammanambakkam.
Because the stops were by different police units in different villages, whether they were coordinated as one operation or recorded as separate cases is not stated.
Mumbai Airport Customs arrested two Bhutanese nationals arriving from Bangkok in separate interceptions and seized about 2.95 kg of cannabis hidden in chocolate wrappers and carton boxes. Customs officers said international syndicates are recruiting Bhutanese citizens as couriers and that other handlers have yet to be traced.
Arumuganeri police arrested Tahir Athil, 20, and Jasim Imran, 19, of Kayalpattinam on 4 November 2026 after finding them with ganja for sale on a school ground at Peyanvilai in Thoothukudi district. Police seized 100 grams of ganja and 40 ziplock covers and remanded the two men to Perurani jail.
Anantnag police arrested two men in separate checks in Pahalgam and Mattan on 4 November 2026, recovering about 3 kg of bhang powder from one and about 19.6 grams of charas from the other. Police registered an NDPS case at each station and said investigations were under way.
Narkhi police arrested Hariprakash near Baindi bridge in Firozabad, seizing 725 grams of ganja and Rs 3,720 in cash. Police registered a case under the NDPS Act and reported both recoveries as the amounts found in the search.
