311.3 kg of ganja seized from a truck at Barachatti check post; one held
Bihar's excise department caught a 35-year-old Supaul man with 311.3 kg of ganja hidden in a truck at the Suryamandal check post in Gaya district's Barachatti on 5 November 2026. The truck was seized and officers valued the ganja at about one crore rupees while they questioned him about the network.
🇮🇳 Suryamandal integrated check post, Barachatti police-station area, Gaya district, Bihar · India
Bihar’s excise department caught a 35-year-old man from Supaul district with
311.3 kg of ganja in a truck at the Suryamandal check post in Barachatti
police-station area, Gaya district, on Thursday 5 November 2026.[1]One
smuggler was arrested and the truck was seized.[1]
The excise department put the seized ganja’s estimated value at about one crore
rupees.[1]
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The page's lead picture for the Barachatti seizure; it carries no caption or credit.Photo details
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
311.3 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 10,000,000
Agency
Bihar Excise and Prohibition Department
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (311.3 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Bihar
Sources
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIसूर्यमंडल चेकपोस्ट पर ट्रक से 311 किलो गांजा मिला: कीमत करीब एक करोड़ रुपए; गयाजी में तस्कर गिरफ्तार
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The main article does not give the seizure date; Thursday fell on 5 November 2026, the publication day, and is used as the incident date.
No charge sheet, charge or court outcome was reported; police said they were questioning the arrested man and would file a chargesheet after the investigation.
The value of about one crore rupees is the excise department's estimate, not a market valuation confirmed elsewhere.
The lead photo carries no caption or credit, so it is not established to show this seizure; it is linked only as the page picture.
Both accounts are from Dainik Bhaskar; no independent outlet report of this seizure was found.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: A second Dainik Bhaskar report describes ganja being carried in ten sacks hidden under sacks of discarded paddy in the same truck.
Mahabubabad district police destroyed 99.688 kg of dry ganja, valued at Rs 49.84 lakh, seized in 19 NDPS cases. The court-approved disposal took place at a biomedical waste facility at Gopalpet in Khammam district under the district Drug Disposal Committee.
Gurgaon Traffic Police intercepted two people carrying cannabis at Nainwal Cut in Manesar and recovered 12kg, handing them to the local police station for investigation. The seizure was reported as part of traffic police crime-prevention work over the past 30 days.
Police in Bihar's Kosi division seized 8,254.794 kilograms of ganja during an ongoing anti-narcotics campaign across Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts launched in February 2026. Authorities sent 2,717 suspected traffickers to jail across all contraband categories, with recent weekly operations recovering another 52.1 kg of ganja and arresting 13 people on dry-narcotics offences.
A joint GRP, RPF and NCB team seized 31.15 kg of ganja in seven packets from a minor carrying two bags on train No. 19484 at Ara Junction. The child was sent to a remand home for production before the Juvenile Justice Board.