A joint team of the Railway Protection Force stopped and searched a young man on platform no. 2 of Madhupur railway station after his movements appeared suspicious.[1][2][3][4] The team arrested him with 11 bundles of ganja.[1][2][5][3][6]

Dainik Bhaskar puts the value of the seized ganja at about ₹12.50 lakh.[1][2][3][6] Two accounts say the man was arrested with ganja on the platform of Madhupur railway station.[7]

The operation was carried out by a joint team of the Railway Protection Force and the CIB, as described by a local Madhupur account.[7][2] The local account dates the item to 7 November 2026 and places it in Madhupur, Deoghar district, Jharkhand.[7][5]

The 11 bundles were taken from a trolley bag and a rucksack, and when weighed the ganja came to about 25 kg.[2][5][3] The arrested man was 20 years old and a resident of Nayagarh in Odisha.[2][3] After the arrest the RPF handed the man and the ganja to the Madhupur railway police, who sent him to judicial custody, the remand a magistrate orders while a case is investigated.[2][3]

The Madhupur RPF inspector, H.K. Singh, said the seized ganja was estimated to be worth about ₹13 lakh.[5]

The arrest came during checks at stations and on trains ordered by senior officers ahead of the Kali Puja, Diwali and Chhath festivals.[3] Dainik Jagran says the man was carrying a railway ticket from Madhupur to Roorkee, in Uttarakhand, where he said he was taking the consignment.[3] The man told the RPF he had travelled by road to Madhupur rather than by train to Dhanbad as originally planned.[3] Railway police suspect at least one other smuggler escaped from the spot and are questioning the arrested man about the network he worked for.[3]

The check happened at about 02:55 on 7 November 2026.[4] The officers approached the suspect near electric pole number 293/13A on platform number 2.[4] The seized drugs and the detained man were handed to the Madhupur Government Railway Police Station in Deoghar district, Jharkhand, where proceedings began under sections 20(b)(ii)(C) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.[4]