Bihar police arrest man with 1.596 kg of ganja and four cartridges
Police in Jharhapar village, Nalanda district, Bihar, arrested Rakesh Prasad after searching his house on the evening of 30 October 2026 and seized 1.596 kg of ganja and four live cartridges. He was produced before a judge in Hilsa the next day, and police said further legal action was under way.
🇮🇳 Jharhapar village, Karai Parsurai, Nalanda, Bihar · India
Police arrested Rakesh Prasad after searching his house in Jharhapar village, in
the Karai Parsurai police station area of Nalanda district, Bihar, on the
evening of Friday 30 October 2026.[1]Officers seized1.596 kg of ganja, the
local name for cannabis, and four live cartridges.[1][2]Dainik Bhaskar reported
that 1.126 kg of the ganja was in an open plastic bag inside a bucket and 470
grams in a white plastic bag, and that the cartridges were in a box wrapped in
black plastic.[3]
Station house officer Sushil Kumar Paswan said police had a tip that Prasad kept
ganja and cartridges at the house and searched it after verifying the
information.[1]The raid was carried out by a team formed on the orders of the
Nalanda district superintendent of police to act against illegal narcotics,
Dainik Bhaskar reported.[3]Police questioned Prasad after the arrest and
produced him before a judge at the Hilsa sub-divisional court on Saturday 31
October.[1]Police said further legal action was under way.[1][2]
Prasad had been released from jail on 25 October and had returned to ganja smuggling, DNB Bharat reported.[2]Police were working to trace the ganja smuggling network.[2]
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No charge or court outcome is reported; the reports say only that Prasad was produced before a judge and that further legal action was under way.
Dainik Bhaskar describes the material as ganja-like and gives no test result, while Prabhat Khabar calls it ganja.
The reports give the arrested man's father's name as Videshwar Prasad in Prabhat Khabar and Bindeshwar Prasad in Dainik Bhaskar, and Dainik Bhaskar once calls the suspect Rakesh Kumar.
Jharhapar village could not be matched to a mapped point, so the coordinates are the Karai Parsurai block centre.
Only the DNB Bharat report gives the 25 October release, and it does not say what Prasad was jailed for or which case it concerned.
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