CBN Rajasthan Seizes 3,937 kg Poppy Straw in Anti-Drug Drives

The Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), the agency under the Ministry of Finance that oversees licit opium cultivation and acts against illicit trafficking, has reported a run of enforcement operations in Rajasthan. Its state unit took close to four tonnes of contraband off illegal supply lines during the past weeks, and the results were made public on 26 September 2026.

What the state unit took

Across the cases the unit recovered 3,937 kg of poppy straw, the crushed opium poppy capsule that is known in the region as doda chura. It also recovered 9.6 kg of raw opium and 1.9 kg of hydroponic cannabis. Cash worth ₹18.42 lakh, six vehicles and a country-made pistol loaded with three live rounds were taken along with the drugs, and four persons were arrested.

How the consignments were caught

The largest single interception was a truck carrying 2,292.460 kg of poppy straw stuffed into 118 bags and buried beneath a cover load of cement sacks. Two men were arrested there and the truck was seized; a motorcycle and a register turned up later at the house of one of them. A second search of a premises yielded 1,037 kg of doda chura in 56 bags, where a Fortuner car stood loaded with the same contraband, and the country-made pistol came out of that vehicle.

Passenger cars were used as carriers in the smaller cases. A Tata Harrier gave up 340 kg of poppy straw packed in 23 bags. A Honda Amaze abandoned by its occupant, who fled the spot, held 156.7 kg in nine bags. A Creta yielded a further 110 kg and led to one arrest. In a separate case the opium and the cash were both recovered from residential premises.

A parcel opened at Jaipur

Officers of the unit searched an international parcel that had arrived from the United States at the Foreign Post Office in Jaipur. Inside an air circulator box, packed into four packets, lay the hydroponic cannabis. Every article recovered has been seized under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and investigators are now working back along the chain to identify the sources, the destinations, the supply channels and the people behind them.