ANTF Varanasi Seizes 1 kg 20 g Heroin Worth About Rs 2.10 Crore; One Held

The Anti-Narcotics Task Force unit at Varanasi has arrested Abhishek Sonkar and recovered 1 kilogram 20 grams of heroin with a tip valuation of about Rs 2.10 crore, according to the police account reported on 6 September 2026. Sonkar is a resident of Jharia Jagdishpur, Babhatpur, under Phulpur police station limits in Varanasi. The arrest itself was made at Godhna More on the service road under Alinagar police station in neighbouring Chandauli district, where he was allegedly moving for supply.

The geography has to stay honest in one line. The accused lives in Phulpur, Varanasi. The intercept point is Chandauli. The seizing unit is ANTF Varanasi. That triangle is why the story sits on this city’s crime desk without pretending the roadside stop happened inside Varanasi’s municipal boundary.

Along with the 1 kg 20 g heroin, the recovery list in the tip account included a motorcycle, a mobile phone and about Rs 650 in cash. The case has been registered under the NDPS Act. Officers said further investigation into possible associates and supply links is continuing. This copy does not invent a gang chart beyond that probe line.

One kilogram 20 grams is the weight to hold. About Rs 2.10 crore is the valuation carried in the police-side tips for that quantity. Where secondary notes slip into a rounded “1.02 kg” or a mistyped larger figure, the desk stays with 1 kg 20 g and the Rs 2.10 crore tip valuation rather than averaging rival headlines.

Phulpur is not a new pin on Varanasi’s crime map this weekend. It reappears in a separate juvenile firearm injury from the same police-station belt. Those two files are not being merged. Sonkar’s NDPS arrest is a trafficking recovery. The Behwariya reel injury is a different Saturday incident under the same broad Phulpur umbrella. Readers should not be asked to treat them as one conspiracy.

ANTF’s Varanasi unit is the agency on the seizure. The DGP office framing in Hindi tips underscored that further angles remain under investigation. No trial finding is claimed here. Arrest, recovery weight, valuation as tipped, NDPS sections, and the Chandauli intercept point are the publishable spine.

For Varanasi, the local hook is residence plus the unit that made the case. A Phulpur man moving alleged supply through a Chandauli service-road junction is exactly the sort of cross-district narcotics pattern ANTF was built to cut. Whether the probe widens to named co-accused will depend on what the task force puts on paper next.

Until a chargesheet or a further recovery note lands, the public facts stop at one arrested Phulpur resident, 1 kg 20 g heroin, about Rs 2.10 crore on the tip valuation, a motorcycle and phone, roughly Rs 650 cash, and an NDPS case opened after the Godhna More intercept. That is the ANTF Varanasi result as reported on 6 September.