A joint team of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), India’s border guard, and Phulkaha police arrested a young man early Tuesday morning in the border area of Narpatganj block in Araria district.[1] Acting on a tip-off at about 2:40 am on 10 November 2026, officers set up a checkpoint near Manikpur village roughly 500 metres inside the border from pillar 188/03.[2] When the rider approached from Nepal and was signalled to stop, he tried to flee, but officers chased and caught him.[2] Officers identified the arrested man as 20-year-old Neeraj Kumar, son of Om Prakash Yadav and a resident of Laxmipur village.[2]

During a search, officers recovered 55 kilograms of ganja from a plastic sack tied to the back of the motorcycle.[1] The team also seized a Bajaj Pulsar 220 motorcycle and a Redmi mobile phone from the scene.[1] The seized motorcycle carried registration number BR-07-AN-9705, and the phone was a Redmi Note 15 5G model.[2]

According to the SSB, Kumar said during questioning that he had collected the ganja from a man named Ranjit Das in Dewanganj, Nepal, to deliver to an unidentified recipient on the Narpatganj highway.[1] Initial interrogation indicated that Kumar was acting as a courier in the smuggling operation.[2] Phulkaha station house officer Vikas Kumar Maurya said a first information report was registered against the accused and he was sent to judicial custody.[1]