84 kg ganja seized near Dumarbana on India-Nepal border; smugglers flee
A joint SSB and Bihar Police patrol recovered 84 kg of ganja hidden in sacks near bamboo bushes at Dumarbana Yadav Tola on the India-Nepal border in Araria. The smugglers fled and the haul was handed to Ghurna police, who registered a case and are investigating.
🇮🇳 Dumarbana Yadav Tola, Ghurna, Araria, Bihar · India
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Cannabis
84 kg
Agencies
56th Battalion Sashastra Seema Bal, Ghurna police station
A joint team of the 56th Battalion SSB Bathnaha Dumarbana border post and Ghurna
police was patrolling the India-Nepal border area in Araria district.[1]A
joint SSB and police patrol recovered 84 kilograms of ganja concealed in sacks
near bamboo bushes by Dumarbana Yadav Tola in the Ghurna police station area on
the India-Nepal border.[2]The smugglers fled from the spot during the
operation and no one was caught there.[2]
The team spotted the suspicious sacks about 30 metres inside Indian territory
from border pillar number 192/5.[1]The recovered ganja was handed to Ghurna
police for legal action.[1]Station house officer Suman Kumari said a case was
registered over the recovery and further investigation was under way.[1]
She said the campaign against drug smugglers in the border area would continue
and those involved would face strict action.[1]The value of the ganja was
described only as running into lakhs of rupees.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
84 kg
Agencies
56th Battalion Sashastra Seema Bal, Bathnaha; Ghurna police station
Agency type
Border guard, Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (84 kg)
Setting
Land border
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Bihar
Sources
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