Police in Vaishali district seized 13.440 kilograms of ganja, the local name for cannabis, from a Swift car near Hajipur Junction.[1] Officers also seized two mobile phones from the car.[1] Police put the value of the ganja at about 3 lakh rupees.[1] The arrested man was Ritik Roshan, a resident of the Bidupur police station area.[2] Officers stopped and searched the car near a petrol pump beside the junction, Prabhat Khabar reported.[2]

The action was carried out under Operation Neelkanth, on the instructions of Senior Superintendent of Police Shubhank Mishra.[3] Sadar SDPO-1 Subodh Kumar said at a press conference that the tip came from the Prohibition and State Narcotics Control Bureau in Patna on Wednesday evening.[2] The tip said a Swift car was carrying a large quantity of ganja around Hajipur Junction.[2] Police said Roshan had lived in a rented house in Ramchandra Nagar, Ward 25, Digghi Kala, and had been trafficking ganja for six months.[2] He told officers he bought the drug cheaply in Motihari and other districts and sold it at higher prices in Vaishali, they said.[2]

Sadar police station registered a case under the NDPS Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and Roshan was sent to Hajipur jail in judicial custody on 29 October.[2] Police said they were checking the roles of other people in the network.[3]