Administration seizes 1 kg of ganja from a kirana shop in Buxar district
A team led by Sadar circle officer Rahul Shankar raided a kirana shop in Boksa village, Buxar district, Bihar, on a tip-off and recovered 1 kilogram of ganja. The administration seized the drug and began legal proceedings against the shop's owner, Amarnath Prasad; no arrest was reported.
🇮🇳 Boksa village, Sadar block, Buxar, Bihar · India
An administrative team led by Sadar circle officer Rahul Shankar raided a
kirana, or grocery, shop in Boksa village in Buxar district, Bihar, on a tip-off
and found ganja, the local name for cannabis.[1][2]During a search of the shop,
the police and administrative team recovered 1 kilogram of ganja.[1][3]The
shop’s owner was named as Amarnath Prasad.[1][2]The administration seized the
ganja and began legal proceedings against the shop owner, Amarnath Prasad, as
the rules require.[1]Rahul Shankar confirmed the action and said the
administration was running a sustained campaign against illegal activity and the
drug trade in the area.[1]The tip-off said ganja was being traded illegally
from the shop in Boksa village.[1]Officials warned that anyone involved in
such illegal trades in the area would not be spared and that similar raids would
continue.[1][3]
Buxar Khabar reported that Mufassil police station officers took the shopkeeper and two women into custody from the house where the ganja had been hidden, and Dainik Bhaskar said all three were produced in court after the paperwork.[3]Buxar Khabar placed the raid under a statewide anti-drug drive, a one-month special campaign due to run until 27 November.[3]
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Circle officer Rahul Shankar with the ganja seized from the kirana shop in Boksa village, captioned "बरामद गांजा के साथ सिओ" in Prabhat Khabar's report. Photo: Prabhat Khabar NetworkPhoto details
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Source: Buxar KhabarThe ganja seized from the kirana shop in Boksa village. Photo: Dainik BhaskarPhoto details
The article gives no separate date for the raid; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No arrest was reported, and the article does not say whether the shop owner was detained or only booked; the proceedings are described as started, not completed.
The article does not say under which law or section proceedings against the shop owner were started, nor whether a first information report was registered.
No age, custody status or court outcome was given for the shop owner.
The ganja is stated as 1 kilogram, a rounded figure; no street value was published.
Boksa village could not be matched to a mapped point, so the coordinates are the Buxar district centre.
Only one account of this raid could be found; searches in Hindi and English did not return an opened second source.
The photograph, credited to Prabhat Khabar Network, shows a circle officer with recovered ganja; the caption does not confirm it is the Boksa haul.
Buxar Khabar and Dainik Bhaskar attribute the raid to Mufassil police station, while Prabhat Khabar, the report's only existing source, described an administrative team led by Sadar circle officer Rahul Shankar; the accounts do not reconcile the two.
Buxar Khabar says the shopkeeper and two women were taken into custody, Dainik Bhaskar calls all three arrests, and Prabhat Khabar reported none, so the number arrested or detained is unclear.
Buxar Khabar places the two women at the house where the ganja was hidden and does not link that house to the shop, while Dainik Bhaskar says they were picked up at the shop.
No charges or court outcome were reported; the Dainik Bhaskar page was cut off by an app paywall after it said all three were produced in court.
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Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
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