Two held with 73 kg of ganja in a car on NH-27 in Madhubani
Bhairavsthan police stopped a car on NH-27 near Khadrak village in Madhubani district, Bihar, on 29 October 2026 and found 73 kg of ganja hidden under the boot and seats. Two men from Triveniganj in Supaul district were arrested, the car was seized, and a case was registered against both under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Khadrak village, Bhairavsthan, Madhubani, Bihar · India
Police in Bihar’s Madhubani district arrested two men on Thursday after stopping
their car on national highway NH-27 and finding 73 kg of ganja (cannabis) in it.[1]Officers from Bhairavsthan police station acted on a tip-off that a car was
carrying a large quantity of ganja from Triveniganj in Supaul district towards
Delhi.[2]They set up a vehicle check on NH-27 near Khadrak village.[2]A
suspected car coming from Triveniganj was signalled to stop, and when those
inside tried to flee, the team surrounded the car, stopped it and began
searching it.[2]
The ganja was hidden under the boot and the seats.[2]The recovered ganja was
seized and sealed.[2]The car used to carry it was also taken into police
custody.[2]
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Police personnel with the seized car and two sacks placed in front of it at the stop on NH-27.Photo details
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Arrested
2
Cannabis
73 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIकार से 73 किलो गांजा बरामद, दो गिरफ्तार: भैरवस्थान थाना पुलिस ने एनएच-27 पर पकड़ा, सुपौल से दिल्ली ले जा रहे थे तस्कर
Prabhat Khabarprabhatkhabar.comHIझंझारपुर में कार से 73 किलो गांजा बरामद, सुपौल के दो तस्कर गिरफ्तार, दिल्ली ले जाने की थी तैयारी
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Both reports date the operation only to Thursday; 29 October 2026, the date both were published, was a Thursday, and no separate date for the stop is given.
No charge sheet, plea or court outcome is reported; the reports say only that a case was registered under the NDPS Act.
Neither report gives a value for the 73 kg consignment.
The Dainik Bhaskar photograph has no caption or credit; it shows police with the seized car and two sacks, but the sacks' contents are not identified in the text.
Dainik Bhaskar says the ganja was to be sold in Delhi, while Prabhat Khabar says Delhi and nearby cities.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police identified the two as Sonu Kumar and Gopal Kumar, both from Bhura village in the Triveniganj police station area of Supaul district.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: The search was carried out in the presence of Prashant Kumar Jha, the Jhanjharpur circle officer (anchal adhikari) acting as magistrate.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: The two men told police during questioning that the consignment was to be sold in Delhi.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police suspect the ganja was brought in through the Bhimnagar crossing on the Nepal border.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: A case was registered against both under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and police said they were investigating the whole network.
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.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.
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.