Jamalpur rail police seize 43.258 kg of ganja in October; 48 held
Railway police in Bihar's Rail district Jamalpur said they seized 43.258 kg of ganja in October 2026 and arrested one person in that case, part of 48 arrests recorded for the month. The figures were presented at a monthly crime review meeting chaired by Rail SP Vidyasagar, where officers were also told to step up patrols on trains and platforms for Diwali and Chhath.
🇮🇳 Rail district Jamalpur, Jamalpur, Munger district, Bihar · India
Railway police in the Rail district Jamalpur in Bihar arrested 48 accused during
October 2026.[1][2]Officers in the Rail district Jamalpur in Bihar seized43.258
kg of ganja, the Hindi term for cannabis, during October 2026.[1]
The figures were presented at a monthly review meeting chaired by the Rail
Superintendent of Police, Vidyasagar.[1]
Railway police in Jamalpur, in Bihar’s Munger district, reported seizing 43.258 kg of ganja.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
48
Cannabis
43.258 kg
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (43.258 kg)
Operation
1 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
Region
Bihar
Date
Publication date
Sources
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIअक्टूबर में रेल पुलिस ने 48 आरोपी गिरफ्तार किए: जमालपुर में 205.435 लीटर शराब और 43.258 किलो गांजा जब्त किया; ऑपरेशन मुस्कान में 32 मोबाइल भी लौटाए
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIअक्टूबर में रेल पुलिस ने 48 आरोपी गिरफ्तार किए:जमालपुर में 205.435 लीटर शराब और 43.258 किलो गांजा जब्त किया; ऑपरेशन मुस्कान में 32 मोबाइल भी लौटाए
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The article gives no date for the ganja seizure; 5 November 2026, its publication date, stands in for the incident date.
The 43.258 kg of ganja and its single arrest are a monthly total for the rail district, and the article does not say at which railway station or in which case they were recorded.
The article lists 205.435 litres of liquor seized in total but also 57.425 litres of foreign and 148.01 litres of country liquor in the excise cases; the two figures do not add up exactly and the liquor numbers are left out of this report.
The 48 October arrests cover excise, NDPS, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Railways Act cases together, with no separate ganja-only arrest total for the month.
The article does not say whether the arrested people were charged or what happened in court.
The article says the substance was ganja but reports no laboratory confirmation or value estimate.
Under Operation Muskan, the state campaign to return recovered phones, 32 lost and stolen mobile phones were given back to their owners; that is not a cannabis matter and is left out.
Only one account of this meeting could be opened; no police statement or second outlet was found.
This capture is the video version of the story and contains only the headline; an article body behind the same story identifier gives further detail that is not part of this opened source.
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.
The Odisha Excise Department arrested 3,764 people in a month-long special enforcement drive from 10 October to 10 November 2026. Seizures included 3,201 kg of ganja, 6,366 grams of heroin and more than 4.28 lakh bulk litres of illicitly distilled liquor, with 7,826 cases registered.
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.