108 kg ganja found in overturned, abandoned car near Jogbani border
A joint SSB and Bihar Police team recovered 108 kilograms of ganja from an overturned, empty Toyota near Mirganj bridge on the Mirganj–Kochgama road, about 4 km from the India-Nepal border near pillar 179/02. The drugs and the car were handed to Jogbani police, and no one was arrested.
🇮🇳 Near Mirganj bridge, Mirganj–Kochgama road, Jogbani, Araria district, Bihar · India
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56th Battalion Sashastra Seema Bal, Jogbani police station
A joint team of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), India’s border guard, and Bihar
Police found an overturned, abandoned Toyota car near Mirganj bridge in the
Mirganj area of Jogbani, close to the India-Nepal border.[1]
Officers searched the vehicle and recovered 108 kilograms of ganja packed inside
it.[2]A testing kit was used to confirm that the material was a narcotic
substance.[2]The seized ganja and the car, registration number BR 33 PA 9038,
were handed over to Jogbani police station.[2]The Araria district police gave
the same figure, saying 108 kilograms of ganja were seized from a vehicle on the
Mirganj–Kochgama road during the joint operation.[3]
Nitin Kumar Gupta, second-in-command of the SSB’s 56th Battalion, said the team
acted on information received at about 9 am on Thursday, 5 November, that a
Toyota had overturned near border pillar 179/02 with drugs inside.[2]The
officers found no one with the car, and neither account reports any arrest.[1]The SSB post at Jogbani and local police carried out the operation within the
SSB’s 56th Battalion, based at Bathnaha.[2]
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SSB and Bihar Police officers standing beside the overturned Toyota and sacks of ganja seized from it, published with the report captioned only 'ganja seized from the car'. Photo: Dainik BhaskarPhoto details
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Araria Police (@ArariaP)x.comHIजोगबनी थाना पुलिस एवं SSB की संयुक्त अभियान के दौरान मीरगंज-कोचगामा मार्ग पर एक वाहन से 108 किलो गांजा को किया गया ज़ब्त
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Neither account names a suspect, arrest or detention, and no NDPS case number or court step was reported.
The ganja was described as ganja and checked with a testing kit, but no laboratory confirmation or value estimate was published.
The accounts say the car was overturned and abandoned but do not say where it had come from or whether it had crossed from Nepal.
The value of the 108 kg was not given, and no figure for the plants or fields behind the consignment was reported.
The two written accounts and the police post reproduce the same SSB statement, so they are not independent reporting.
The Bhaskar photo address is the 730-pixel version from the page's metadata; the visible thumbnail uses a smaller 512-pixel path.
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