Four held with 419 kg of ganja from a pickup near Nepal border in Madhubani
The Bihar STF and Madhubani police seized 419 kg of ganja from a pickup in Basopatti, near the Nepal border, on 13 June 2026 and arrested four people, including the alleged main accused. Three police personnel, among them the local station house officer and a Dial 112 sub-inspector, were suspended after the patrol driver was found to have escorted the smugglers.
Four people were arrested, including the main accused, Vinod Sahni.[1]Officers stopped the pickup on the main road between Jhitkohia and Kauaha in
Basopatti police station area, in an area close to the international border with
Nepal.[2]Dainik Jagran reported that the operation was carried out at about 4
am on Saturday, after the Special Task Force received advance information.[2]Dainik Jagran reported that Sahni was caught by the STF and police near the
Indo-Nepal border at Madhwapur while trying to flee.[2]
Among the four arrested were the pickup’s driver and its helper, the deputy
superintendent of police told Dainik Jagran.[2]Three police personnel were
suspended over the case.[1]The disciplinary action came after the
investigation allegedly showed that the driver of a Dial 112 emergency response
vehicle had colluded with the traffickers.[1]
The pickup used to carry the ganja was seized.[3]The local police’s Dial 112
vehicle was used to escort the smugglers’ pickup safely through the district
when the STF team, already lying in wait, stopped it too.[2]Dainik Jagran
reported a market value of about Rs 5 lakh for the haul, while Aaj Tak put it at
about Rs 1.20 crore.[2]
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India Todayindiatoday.in419 kg of cannabis seized near Nepal border in Bihar; police collusion suspected
Dainik Jagranjagran.comHIबिहार में पुलिस और तस्करों की मिलीभगत का भंडाफोड़, 419 किलो गांजा के साथ 4 गिरफ्तार; थानाध्यक्ष समेत 3 निलंबित
Aaj Takaajtak.inHIनेपाल बॉर्डर से आ रही थी 1.20 करोड़ गांजे की खेप, तस्करों से मिलीभगत में SHO समेत 2 पुलिसकर्मी सस्पेंड
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Basopatti police station area, not a village, is the only place named for the stop; coordinates are for Madhubani district headquarters, not the road between Jhitkohia and Kauaha.
The accounts differ sharply on value: Dainik Jagran put the Indian market price at about Rs 5 lakh, implausibly low for 419 kg, while Aaj Tak gave about Rs 1.20 crore on the international market; no value is recorded in the structured data.
The arrest count differs: India Today, Aaj Tak and Dainik Jagran report four arrests, while a Dainik Bhaskar account of the same seizure says five people were arrested after ten were named in the first information report; this report uses four.
Dainik Jagran says the consignment was being brought from Nepal and that Sahni was caught near the Madhwapur border, while India Today places the seizure only in an area near the border; where the ganja crossed and where it was to be delivered are still under investigation.
The sources say the Dial 112 driver was named in the first information report, but do not clearly say whether he was arrested, and no outcome for any suspect beyond the suspensions was reported.
No charges, remand, plea or court outcome were reported; the accounts say only that the first information report was being registered.
Dainik Jagran says the first information report would name about ten people, a planning statement rather than a list of accused; no names beyond Vinod Sahni were published.
The submitted India Today page carries more text in its markup than in its readable capture, including the joint-raid and SP statements; only the readable captured text is cited here, so those points rest on the Hindi accounts alone.
The sub-inspector's name, Munna Kumar, and the Dial 112 in-charge's name, Hira Pandit, appear in Dainik Jagran; the report states only the positions.
The images published with the reports do not identify the location of the stop, and no photograph of the seized 419 kg could be separately confirmed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Aaj Tak: The suspensions covered the Basopatti station house officer, on charges of dereliction of duty, and a sub-inspector posted with the Dial 112 emergency response unit who was absent from duty.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Aaj Tak: Aaj Tak noted that several drug-trafficking cases had previously been reported in areas along the Nepal border.
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.