Three held with 62 kg of ganja in hidden SUV compartment in Khagaria, Bihar
A joint Bihar STF and Khagaria police team stopped a white XUV at Khoradhar bridge on NH-107 on 18 August 2026 and found about 62 kg of ganja in 62 packets in a compartment under the rear seat. Three Patna district men, including the driver, were arrested, and the SUV and five mobile phones were seized.
🇮🇳 Khoradhar bridge, NH-107, Maheshkhunt, Khagaria, Bihar · India
Three men from Patna district were arrested with 62 kg of ganja hidden in a
secret compartment under the rear seat of their white SUV during a vehicle check
on NH-107 in Khagaria.[1]They were Manish Kumar and Raushan Kumar, both from
Chandmari Nurpur under Shahpur police station, and Gaurav Kumar, the driver,
from Mahuabagh under Rupaspur police station.[2]The team acted on a tip-off
that traffickers would bring ganja from Chautham towards Maheshkhunt, and set up
the check at Khoradhar bridge on NH-107 under Maheshkhunt police station’s
station house officer, Mithilesh Kumar.[3]They stopped a white XUV coming
from Chautham and found 62 packets holding about 62 kg of ganja in a hidden
compartment under the rear seat, then seized the vehicle.[3]
Police also recovered five mobile phones from the men.[2]Maheshkhunt police
registered case 154/26 on 18 August 2026 under section 8/20(b)(ii)(C) of the
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.[3]Police said initial
questioning indicated the men brought consignments from Khagaria and supplied
them in different parts of Patna.[2]The Hindustan daily estimated the seized
ganja’s value at more than 600,000 rupees.[4]Superintendent of Police Bhanu
Pratap Singh said the drive against drug trafficking in the district had
produced a big success and would continue.[4]
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Packets of ganja recovered by police in Maheshkhunt, Khagaria. Photo: Prabhat Khabar NetworkPhoto details
No charge sheet, bail decision or court outcome has been reported for the three men.
The reports do not say where the ganja was grown; police said they were still establishing where the consignment came from and who received it in Patna.
The figure of more than 600,000 rupees is an estimate in the Hindustan report and is not attributed to a police officer.
One report names the second man Roshan Kumar and another Raushan Kumar.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Prabhat Khabar: Officers were trying to establish where the consignment came from and who in Patna received it.
Bengaluru city police seized 46 kg and 486 grams of ganja and 1 litre and 542 millilitres of hashish oil in raids across eleven police-station areas, an operation in which they arrested 34 people. Police valued all the narcotics seized, including MDMA and cocaine, at Rs 12.61 crore and registered cases under the NDPS Act.
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.