Garhwa police recovered 426 kilograms of ganja on 8 November 2026 from a container truck parked near the Kalyanpur overbridge in Jharkhand.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar received a tip and sent a team led by sub-divisional police officer Dillu Lohra and station house officer Sunil Kumar Tiwari.[1][3][7] Officers found the truck empty and did not locate the driver.[1][2][11][9]

Police said the truck, registered in Uttar Pradesh under number UP21BN7171, had a concealed compartment behind the cab.[1][3][11][6] Officers took it to the police station and cut the compartment open.[1][3][5] Inside were 426 packets wrapped in plastic and weighing about one kilogram each.[1][3][5][6][8][10] ETV Bharat put the value at about one crore rupees, while the police estimate carried by PTI was about 2.13 crore rupees.[4][11][6][9]

Police registered a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and were investigating the source, destination and people involved.[1][2][3][11][6] The press coverage also reported a separate railway seizure at Tatisilway.[11][6]