Rider flees, police find 509 g of charas in a milk drum in East Champaran
Police in Mahuawa, East Champaran, searched a milk drum loaded on a motorcycle parked by the Dharmnagar border road and found 509 grams of a charas-like substance hidden under 180 bottles of Nepali liquor. The rider escaped towards the Nepal border; no arrest was reported and police were trying to identify him from the bike.
🇮🇳 Dharmnagar, Mahuawa, East Champaran, Bihar · India
Police in Mahuawa, East Champaran, searched a milk drum loaded on a motorcycle
parked beside the Dharmnagar border road during a patrol.[1]The rider noticed
the patrol, left the motorcycle and escaped towards the Nepal border under cover
of darkness.[1]Officers seized the motorcycle and the narcotics and were
trying to identify the fugitive from the bike, with raids under way to arrest
him; no arrest was reported.[1]
Inside the drum, officers found 180 bottles of Nepali Kasturi liquor and, hidden
beneath them, 509 grams of a charas-like narcotic substance, station house
officer Manoj Kumar said.[1]Motihari police put the haul at 509 grams of
charas, a cannabis resin, and 54 litres of Nepali liquor.[2]
Police patrol the India-Nepal border area to curb the illegal narcotics and
liquor trade, but traffickers keep adopting new methods, including hiding
contraband in milk drums.[1]The patrol team included Sikandar Kumar, Rupesh
Kumar, Vijay Rai and Pramod Singh, Kumar said.[1]
A joint team of Mahuawa police station and the SSB searched the milk container and recovered Nepali liquor and charas.[3]Police had been told that a youth was smuggling liquor while pretending to sell milk.[3]Officers seized 54 litres of Nepali liquor from the container, along with a consignment of charas.[3]
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The charas and Nepali liquor seized by police in East Champaran. Photo: Dainik Jagran.Photo details
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Whether police later identified or arrested the rider is not known.
Neither account gives a separate calendar date for the search; 30 October 2026 is the publication date of the Jagran report and of the Motihari police post.
Jagran describes the 509 grams as a charas-like narcotic substance, while the Motihari police post calls it charas; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
No street value, case number or court outcome was published.
The Motihari police post includes a video, but no direct video address could be recovered, so it is not listed under media.
The Motihari police post does not name Mahuawa or Dharmnagar; it is matched to this seizure by the identical 509 grams and 54 litres and the same date.
News18 does not give the 509 gram weight, the motorcycle, Dharmnagar or the escape; it is matched by Mahuawa, the milk container, 54 litres of Nepali liquor and charas.
News18 says the charas was worth lakhs of rupees, without a figure; the earlier accounts published no value.
News18 says a joint SSB team took part; the Jagran account names a police patrol and does not mention the SSB.
The same News18 piece also reports separate liquor arrests at Turkaulia and Dhaka and a ganja arrest of Sakal Singh at Piprakothi, which are different events.
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.
