This year, 300% jump in police’s drug haul

Panaji: In the first four months of this year, Goa police have seized more drugs than they did over the past four years. Goa police seized drugs worth Rs 68 crore in the four months of 2025, which is a 300% increase compared to the value of drugs seized over the past four years. From 2021 to 2024, drugs worth only Rs 21 crore were seized.
Since 2021, around 1,000kg of various drugs have been seized in the state, worth around Rs 90 crore. In 2025, Goa police have so far arrested 60 persons, including 18 Goans, 32 non-Goans, and six foreigners. Since 2021, Goa police have arrested 691 persons, including 195 Goans, 401 non-Goans, and 93 foreigners.
DGP Alok Kumar told TOI, “Our strategy has been to catch major peddling gangs operating in Goa to put pressure on the supply chain. We have been able to trace backward linkages in many cases, tracking the source of the drugs to the international supply chains. We are also coordinating with other agencies to optimise the outcomes of investigations.”
Last month, in one of the biggest-ever single-day drug seizures by Goa police, 4.3kg of cocaine worth over Rs 43 crore was seized at Chicolna in Mormugao taluka. Three individuals, including a woman, were arrested, and police suspect the drugs were brought to Goa from Thailand to be sold in the local market.
Goa police arrested a 29-year-old resident of Palakkad, Kerala, Mohammad Sameer, for being in alleged possession of over 110g of high micro-LSD liquid worth Rs 11 crore. Sameer, a BBA graduate who had been living in Goa for the past five years, was running a three-room guesthouse at Baga and arranged for taxis for his guests.
In March, Goa police seized drugs worth Rs 11.6 crore and arrested a 23-year-old Bengaluru resident for allegedly illegally possessing over 11kg of hydroponic weed (ganja). Police said the youth brought drugs from Nepal to India and that the crime branch busted an international drug racket.