Police in Jhargram searched the house of Biswajit Sheel in Chandipur village, in the Shalboni area of Jhargram police station, on a secret tip-off.[1][2][3][4] The Bengali accounts place the raid on Saturday night[1]; another account says early on Sunday 8 November 2026.[2] The house was a plain thatched dwelling with uneven brick walls and an earthen floor.[5]

A thorough search found nothing at first, but the soil of the floor made officers suspicious, and they began digging.[1][6][3] A short way down they reached three sacks, which held 43 kg 222 g of ganja.[1][2][6][3] The sacks were seized[1][2] in the presence of Jhargram police station inspector-in-charge Udayshankar Ghosh and joint block development officer Souvik Pramanik.[1] Jhargram sub-divisional police officer Rishabhraj Deb said Biswajit was arrested under the NDPS Act[1][2][6][3]; a first information report was registered and the case is under investigation.[4]

People in the area are used to ganja being found in searches of trucks, buses, cars and motorbikes, but few recall a stock buried inside a house.[1] The district police are running an anti-drug campaign across Jhargram.[1][7]