# Three held, Chinese manjha seized in Faridabad raids after biker’s throat slit 2026-08-19T20:25:38+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Three men were arrested and at least 10 bundles of banned Chinese manjha were seized during raids by the chief minister's flying squad and police in Faridabad on Monday, police said on Tuesday. The raids came a day after a 24-year-old motorcyclist, Pankaj Kumar, suffered an 11 cm-long cut to his throat from the thread on the Old Faridabad flyover and received 18 stitches after surgery. Police seized four bundles from a shop on Nangla Road and six from another at Bhadana Chowk. Officials said the sellers had illegally procured the sharp thread spools from Uttar Pradesh. An FIR was registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Saran police station. The National Green Tribunal banned the import, production, sale, storage and use of Chinese manjha in 2017. CM flying squad officials in Gurugram said they were monitoring illegal sales and would crack down on shop owners found possessing the banned thread, following district administration orders. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The NGT ban on non-biodegradable manjha dates to 2017, yet seizures like this one suggest the thread continues to move across state borders from Uttar Pradesh into Haryana. Each bundle can contain enough thread to injure multiple people, and the injuries are often severe because the glass-coated nylon does not snap on contact. The 10 bundles seized here represent a small fraction of the illegal trade, but the arrests signal that the flying squad is now acting on specific complaints rather than relying on general surveillance. The next step will be whether the supply chain into Uttar Pradesh is traced further. ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com Straight factual report of raids, arrests, and seizure with quotes from police official, no editorialising or stance. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Chinese manjha, Faridabad, Haryana Police, National Green Tribunal, Pankaj Kumar Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/three-held-chinese-manjha-seized-in-faridabad-raids-after-bikers-throat-slit/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/three-held-chinese-manjha-seized-in-faridabad-raids-after-bikers-throat-slit/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/