Bokaro GRP seized 41 kg of ganja in 8 months of train checks
Bokaro Government Railway Police say they recovered about 41 kg of ganja in four train seizures over the past eight months, with no smuggler arrested. The force says three hauls came from the Dhanbad-Alleppy Express and one from the Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Express, likely moved from Odisha.
🇮🇳 Bokaro railway station, Bokaro, Jharkhand · India
For the Chhath festival rush, Bokaro Government Railway Police, India’s state
railway police, increased surveillance at Bokaro railway station and on trains.[1]The drive targets theft and ganja smuggling through intensive searches
across the station premises and trains.[1]In the past eight months, Bokaro
GRP recovered about 41 kg of ganja in four separate actions.[1]No smuggler
had been arrested in those four ganja cases.[1]
Station in-charge P. K. Tiwari said ganja was found three times on the
Dhanbad-Alleppy Express and once on the Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Express.[1]Police
suspect smugglers are moving consignments from Odisha by train to different
destinations.[1]Police said efforts are continuing to identify and arrest the
smugglers.[2]
Bokaro GRP registered 28 cases for various offences this year.[2]Police asked
passengers not to leave their luggage unattended.[2]
Case data
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A joint team of Jaynagar police and Bihar excise officers seized 73.4 kg of ganja from a pickup and arrested two smugglers from Patna and Vaishali. The pickup was also seized and no charge or court outcome had been reported.
Police in Thoothukudi district arrested Balamurugan, 26, and seized 7 kg of ganja he was keeping for sale in Prakash Nagar, in the Pudukottai police limits. Inspector Ramakrishnan led the search, a case was registered, and the investigation was continuing.
Rajasthan Police CID Crime Branch stopped a Swift car in the Balara police-station area of Sikar late on 11 November 2026 and seized 41.51 kg of ganja. Officers arrested Jhunjhunu resident Rakesh Kumar under the NDPS Act and were searching for a companion he named as the owner of the drugs and the car.
Excise Enforcement officials in Bhadrachalam, Telangana, seized 11.6 kg of dry ganja from a motorcycle during vehicle checks near a sand reach on the Kunavaram–Bhadrachalam road on 11 November 2026 and apprehended two men. The pair, residents of Bharat Nagar in Siddipet district, were allegedly transporting the consignment from Malkangiri to Siddipet.
