One held as Patna police seize 70 kg of ganja from a car near Zero Mile
Agamkuan police in Patna stopped a Brezza car near Zero Mile on a tip from 4 November and found 70 kilograms of ganja inside. They arrested one occupant, 25-year-old Shravan Paswan of Supaul district, while the other escaped, and registered a case under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Zero Mile, Agamkuan police station area, Patna, Bihar · India
Police in Patna’s Agamkuan police station area stopped a car near Zero Mile and
found 70 kilograms of ganja, the local name for cannabis, inside it.[1]The
car was a Brezza, and officers seized it during the vehicle check while
arresting one occupant.[2]Police identified the arrested man as Shravan
Paswan, 25, a resident of Pathra ward 6 in the Pipra police station area of
Supaul district.[2]
The second man in the car ran into the crowd and escaped.[2]The tip reached
Agamkuan police on 4 November that two men were bringing ganja from Supaul to
Patna by car.[2]A police team led by Agamkuan station house officer Rajesh
Kumar Jha ran intensive vehicle checks at Zero Mile near Badi Pahadi on a tip
that a large consignment of prohibited ganja was coming by vehicle.[1]Prabhat
Khabar named the other man as Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Saryagadh in the
Bhaptiyahi police station area of Supaul, and said he owned the car.[1]
Police registered a first information report at Agamkuan police station under
the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, India’s narcotics
law.[2]Police were questioning the arrested man about where the consignment
came from and where it was to be supplied.[1]Assistant superintendent of
police Rajkishore Singh gave a press conference on the operations.[1]The same
press conference covered three separate cases, including a solved burglary and a
man held with a country-made pistol, and police said legal proceedings were
under way in all three.[1]
Photos and video
24CityLive composite of Agamkuan police displaying brown-wrapped ganja packets beside a Patna Police banner, and officers escorting the handcuffed suspect past the seized Brezza registered BR19X4734.Photo details
Neither account gives a day for the vehicle check; 6 November 2026 is the date of Prabhat Khabar's report, while 24CityLive says the tip came on 4 November.
The registration number of the seized car is given only by 24CityLive, as BR19X4734.
No value was published for the 70 kilograms of ganja.
No court appearance, judicial custody remand or charge sheet has been reported; the case was at the FIR stage.
Prabhat Khabar gives the briefing officer the rank of ASP and does not say whether he spoke for all three cases.
Prabhat Khabar describes the checking point as Zero Mile near Badi Pahadi; 24CityLive says only near Zero Mile.
Prabhat Khabar's lead picture is captioned as police officers briefing reporters rather than the seizure display itself.
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.