Railway police find 8.126 kg of ganja in unclaimed bag at Ghazipur station
Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police officers found 8.126 kg of ganja in an unclaimed trolley bag on the Amritsar Express at Ghazipur City railway station on 28 October 2026. Police valued the cannabis at Rs 4,06,300; no passenger claimed the bag, and the GRP took it into custody for further action.
🇮🇳 Ghazipur City railway station, platform 1, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh · India
Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) officers
found 8.126 kg of ganja in an unclaimed trolley bag on the Amritsar Express at
Ghazipur City railway station on 28 October 2026.[1]No passenger claimed the
bag when the officers questioned travellers in the coach.[2]Police estimated
the ganja’s value at Rs 4,06,300.[3]
The RPF post at Ghazipur had been told by the divisional security control room
in Varanasi that a bag was lying under berth 27 of coach B-6 of train 15933.[2]
The GRP prepared a recovery memo, took the ganja into custody and began further
action.[2]The recovery was made under ‘Operation Narcos’, according to
Hindustan.[3]
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Four railway police officers stand behind a wrapped package on a table after the recovery at Ghazipur City railway station.Photo details
No arrest or suspect was reported; the accounts do not say who left the bag or where the ganja came from or was going.
None of the reports names an NDPS case number, a charge or a court step.
The three Hindi reports carry near-identical police wording, so the account rests on one official version; no RPF or GRP statement was opened.
Jagran and Hindustan describe the action as part of 'Operation Narcos' without explaining the operation, and Dainik Bhaskar does not name it.
No photographer credit was published for the Dainik Bhaskar picture.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: RPF sub-inspector Vikram and woman head constable Bindu Kumari Gaur waited on platform 1, and GRP sub-inspector Pawan Kumar joined them there.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: The Amritsar Express arrived at 7:53 pm, and the joint team searched the coach and found the yellow bag under the berth.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Jagran: The officers opened the bag and weighed the ganja on an electronic scale.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Sub-inspector Pawan Kumar completed the recovery at 8:25 pm.
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