Four unclaimed packets with 4 kg of suspected ganja seized at Jamalpur station
Railway police at Jamalpur station in Bihar found four unclaimed packets near a platform seating area and seized 4.008 kg of a substance they described as ganja-like. No one claimed the packets, and police registered a case against unknown people while trying to trace who left them.
Railway police found four unclaimed packets on platform 1 of Jamalpur railway
station.[1]The bundles lay near a circular seating area built of concrete
tiles.[2]The find was made on the night of Wednesday 28 October 2026.[3]Officers on patrol spotted the packets and asked passengers about them, but no
one claimed them.[3]When opened, the bundles were found to hold a ganja-like
substance — ganja being the Hindi term for cannabis.[3]The four bundles
weighed 4.008 kg.[1]
Police seized the bundles and took them to the Jamalpur railway police station.[3]Station house officer Swaraj Kumar said sub-inspectors Monu Kumar Shishupal
and Amaresh Kumar found the substance during a check.[2]Police did not know
who brought the consignment to the station or where it was to be delivered.[3]A first information report (FIR), the initial police report that begins a
criminal case, was registered against unknown people at the railway police
station.[1]
Jamalpur station lies in the Malda railway division.[3]Police said the
substance’s official identification would be confirmed only after testing.[2]Police said they were investigating who owned the packets and why they were left
at the station.[2]
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Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
4.008 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Dainik Bhaskarbhaskar.comHIजमालपुर स्टेशन पर 4 किलो गांजा जैसा पदार्थ बरामद: प्लेटफॉर्म नंबर-1 पर चार लावारिस पैकेट मिले, अज्ञात के खिलाफ प्राथमिकी दर्ज
Hindustanlivehindustan.comHIMunger News: जमालपुर स्टेशन पर चार किलो गांजा जैसा पदार्थ बरामद, रेल पुलिस की जांच शुरू
The reports describe the substance as ganja-like and say its official identification would follow testing, so a laboratory confirmation was not reported.
No arrests, named suspects or court step were reported.
The reports give no estimate of the consignment's value and do not say what happened to the packets after they were seized.
The FIR number and the sections of law applied were not published.
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.