Man held with 10 kg ganja at Khammam railway station
Railway police arrested a Bihar native at Khammam railway station on 21 September 2026 after he arrived on the Bengaluru Express with 10 kg of ganja. Police valued the seizure at Rs 5 lakh and registered a case.
🇮🇳 Khammam railway station, Khammam, Telangana · India
Railway police took the man into custody on the platform at Khammam railway
station.[1]He had reached Khammam on 21 September 2026 after boarding the
Bengaluru Express at Mansi railway junction without a ticket.[1]The man is a
native of Bihar state who worked in a rice mill in Miryalaguda.[1]
He had used ganja with employees and workers there.[1]He bought ganja at a
low price in his home area of Nirpur.[1]He hoped to turn it into a business
to make money.[1]Officers seized10 kg of ganja valued at Rs 5 lakh from him
and registered a case.[1]
The detention came during joint checks by the railway police station and the
Railway Protection Force in which suspects are caught.[1]Police say 15 cases
have been recorded in the past two years with the accused caught in the Konark
train.[1]Smugglers mainly buy cheaply in the Bhubaneswar and Berhampur areas
and move the ganja to Mumbai.[1]
Khammam GRP station house officer Ch. Venkateshwarlu said special drives are
being held between Khammam and Vijayawada stations with special focus on the
Konark train and regular checks.[1]
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The article gives no name or age for the arrested man, only that he is from Bihar and worked in a Miryalaguda rice mill.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome was reported beyond registration of a case.
The same article describes a separate 3 November 2025 seizure of 9.5 kg from two Odisha men on the Konark train at Khammam station, left out here as a different event.
The article says all 15 cases in two years involved the Konark train, while this 10 kg seizure involved the Bengaluru Express, a discrepancy the report does not explain.
Only one accessible account of this 21 September 2026 seizure was found after searching in English and Telugu.
Left out activity, as its quotation was not found in Eenadu.
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