Bijuri police arrested a 43-year-old man at the waiting room of the New Bus Stand on the evening of 4 November 2026 and seized 714 grams of ganja, the Hindi term for cannabis, from his bag.[1][2] Police said he had gone there to sell the ganja in the local market.[1]

Police valued the 714 grams at about 10,000 rupees.[3][2] Station house officer Vikas Singh said a police team reached the bus stand on a mobile patrol and saw a suspicious man in the waiting room who ran when he saw the officers.[1][2] Officers in the patrol vehicle chased and caught him.[1] A search of his yellow and black plastic bag found dried green leaves, stalks and seeds that police identified as ganja.[4]

The accused told police he had bought the ganja from Rajendra Dwivedi of Devgawan, in Kotma police station area, and had to sell it to dealers in the local market.[3][2] Police registered a case under section 8/20(B) of the NDPS Act, India’s main drug law, against the accused and the supplier and took up the investigation.[1][2] Jansarovar Prime reported that the action followed directions from district police chief Ankit Soni and was supervised by additional superintendent of police Jagnnath Markam and Kotma sub-divisional police officer Aarti Shakya.[4]

Police said the arrest was part of a district anti-narcotics campaign that had produced 17 ganja cases in the past week, with about two and a half quintals of ganja valued at roughly 1.25 crore rupees seized.[1][2]