164 kg of ganja seized from a car in Chatra; three suspected smugglers flee
Chatra police seized 164 kg of ganja in 82 packets from an abandoned car near the Sikid river on 28 October 2026 after its three occupants fled a vehicle check on the Chatra–Jori road. Police registered an NDPS case; the suspects were still being sought and the outlets' value estimates for the load differ.
🇮🇳 Dadha Mor, Chatra–Jori main road, Chatra, Jharkhand · India
Three suspected smugglers left a car carrying 164 kg of ganja and fled police in
Chatra district, Jharkhand, police said on 28 October 2026.[1]The car was
heading from Chatra towards Bihar, Dainik Bhaskar reported.[2]Officers were
checking vehicles near Dadha Mor on the Chatra–Jori main road when a white Verna
approached.[3]The driver ignored the signal to stop and sped away, and the
checking team chased the car.[3]No one was arrested, and police said they
were trying to identify and arrest the fugitives.[1]
A search of the abandoned car found 82 packets of ganja weighing 164 kg.[1]The vehicle, an Uttar Pradesh-registered Verna with registration UP-14CF-5803,
was seized along with the ganja.[1]Dainik Bhaskar estimated the value of the
load at about 90 lakh rupees.[2]Prabhat Khabar put it at about 1 crore
rupees.[3]
The seizure was made under Operation Clean, a Chatra police campaign against the
drug trade.[1]Police acted on a tip received by Superintendent of Police
Animesh Naithani, Prabhat Khabar reported.[3]The tip said a luxury vehicle
was carrying a large consignment of ganja.[1]A Special Investigation Team was
formed and intensive vehicle checks were carried out.[1]Sub-divisional Police
Officer Sunny Vardhan gave the details at a press conference on Wednesday.[1]
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Police officers sit behind stacks of ganja packets seized from the car at a press conference in Chatra. Photo: Dainik BhaskarPhoto details
The reports do not give the exact date or time of the vehicle check; they were published on 28 October 2026 and describe a press conference that Wednesday, so the seizure is dated to 28 October 2026.
Dainik Bhaskar put the seized ganja's value at about 90 lakh rupees and Prabhat Khabar at about 1 crore rupees, so no value is given in the figures.
The three occupants were not named, and no arrests had been made when the reports were published.
Prabhat Khabar sometimes refers to a single absconding smuggler, while Dainik Bhaskar and Hindustan Samachar say three people fled; the report uses three.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Near the Sikid river the three men left the car stuck in the mud under a bridge and escaped in the dark.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police registered Sadar police station case 448/2026 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
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.