Six held with 35 kg ganja in Vellore-Tirupattur drive
District police in Vellore and Tirupattur arrested six men and seized 35 kg of ganja alongside 37 kg of gutka in a day-long drive on 4 November 2026. Cases were registered, the men were lodged in prison, and police said the contraband came from Andhra Pradesh for sale in nearby industrial areas.
🇮🇳 Vellore and Tirupattur districts, Tamil Nadu · India
Arrested
6
Cannabis
35 kg
District police in Vellore and Tirupattur arrested six drug peddlers in a
special drive searching various public places on Wednesday.[1]Police
identified the arrested men as 32-year-old Rajesh Kumar, 52-year-old Ali Khan,
37-year-old Suresh, 53-year-old Akbar, 35-year-old Harish and 65-year-old
Balaraman, who belonged to Vellore and Tirupattur.[1]Police registered cases
against the six and lodged them in prison, with a further probe under way.[1]
Teams seized35 kg of ganja, the cannabis quantity recorded here, along with 37
kg of gukta in the two districts.[1]Police described the combined haul as 72
kilograms of ganja and gukta seized in various public places.[1]Sniffer dogs
were roped in for searches at railway stations, bus termini and other public
places during the day-long drive.[1]Special teams conducted the surprise
checks on the orders of Superintendents of Police N.U. Sivaraman of Vellore and
Akshay Anil Wakhare of Tirupattur.[1]
Police said most of the seized contraband had been sourced from agents in Andhra
Pradesh for sale in industrial regions such as Ranipet, Sriperambadur,
Vaniyambadi, Ambur, Vellore and Cheyyar.[1]
Photos and video
Police searches with sniffer dogs at a public place such as a railway station during the Vellore-Tirupattur drive. Photo: Special Arrangement Source: The Hindu
The article says the drive happened on Wednesday and was published on 5 November 2026, so 4 November 2026 is used as the incident date by inference.
The 37 kg of gukta/gutka is a tobacco product, not cannabis, and is excluded from cannabis figures; the 72 kg combined total is therefore not recorded as cannabis.
No breakdown of the ganja or gutka by district, location or accused person was published.
No charges, custody details or court outcome beyond registration of cases and lodgement in prison were reported; a probe was said to be under way.
No street value or laboratory weight for the ganja was published.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English and Tamil; other hits were verbatim reprints of the same report.
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