CBN Seizes 4,209.80 kg Poppy Straw in Madhya Pradesh

The correct answer is 4,209.80 kg. The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Central Bureau of Narcotics ran two operations in the week to 11 October 2026, and the quantities recovered in them add up to this figure. The first case, on the Udaipur-Chittorgarh highway, produced 929.08 kg of poppy straw from a container truck, and the second, in Mandsaur district, produced 3,280.72 kg from a Tata truck, which together make the total. Along with the straw the agency seized two trucks and 100 bags of wheat that had been loaded on top of the contraband as cover cargo, and three persons were arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985. The other three options do not match either the individual recoveries or their sum, so they can be ruled out.

The correct answer is bags of wheat. When the Tata truck with a Rajasthan registration number was stopped on the Gandhisagar-Bhanpura road on 9 October 2026 and taken to the CBN office at Garoth for a detailed search, officers found 3,280.72 kg of poppy straw underneath 100 bags of wheat that were being carried as cover cargo. The wheat bags were themselves seized along with the straw and the vehicle. Options B, C and D name fruit crates, cotton bales and cement sacks, none of which figure in this case. It is worth noting that in the other operation, at Neemuch on 5 October 2026, the concealment was different: there the 929.08 kg of poppy straw lay beneath 39 plastic sacks of assorted colours rather than under a grain load.

The correct answer is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, usually shortened to the NDPS Act. Poppy straw is a narcotic substance covered by this law, so both the Neemuch case and the Mandsaur case were registered under its provisions and all three arrests were made under it. Option A, the Customs Act, applies to smuggled goods crossing the border and is the law used in gold seizure cases, not for narcotics moved within the country. Option C, the Essential Commodities Act, deals with hoarding and the supply of essential goods. Option D, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, is used against the proceeds of crime and was not the law invoked here. The seizures totalled 4,209.80 kg of poppy straw.