Youth arrested with 1 kg of ganja and a pistol at Patna's Rajapur Gumti
Patna's Shri Krishnapuri police arrested Shivam Kumar at a roadside kiosk near Rajapur Gumti on a tip-off and recovered about one kilogram of ganja and a pistol, with a second account reporting two live cartridges as well. The sub-divisional officer said Kumar had been jailed before over ganja dealing, and police were questioning him about his supply.
🇮🇳 Rajapur Gumti, Shri Krishnapuri police station area, Patna · India
Patna police arrested a young man they named as Shivam Kumar near Rajapur Gumti,
in the Shri Krishnapuri police station area, on a tip-off that ganja was being
sold from a roadside kiosk there.[1][2][3]The tip-off also said the seller kept a
firearm at the kiosk, a ghumti in local Hindi.[1]Officers searched him and
recovered about one kilogram of ganja and a pistol.[1][2][3]Deshpatra’s account of
the same raid reported two live cartridges seized as well as the pistol and the
kilogram of ganja.[4]
Secretariat SDPO-2 Saket Kumar, the sub-divisional police officer for the
Secretariat subdivision, said the raid followed the tip-off and that the youth
was selling ganja from the kiosk.[1]The SDPO said Shivam Kumar had a criminal
history and had been jailed before in a ganja buying-and-selling case.[1]Kumar and Shri Krishnapuri station house officer Jitendra Rana gave the details
at a press conference.[1]Police said they were questioning him about where
the ganja came from and whether others were part of the trade.[1][5]Deshpatra
reported that police would also act against anyone else found involved.[4]
Live Hindustan reports that one country-made pistol, two cartridges and about one kilogram of ganja were recovered from Shivam Kumar.[2]Shivam Kumar is 23 years old, originally from Khudanagar in Nalanda, and lived on rent near the Pranami temple at Rajapur.[2]Three NDPS Act cases were already registered against Shivam Kumar at Shri Krishnapuri police station.[2][3]He had been absconding since his name surfaced in narcotics recoveries in September and February.[2][3]Police said ganja had been sold at the spot for a long time.[2]Police were questioning him to trace other members of his gang.[2]
Shivam Kumar tried to run on seeing the police and was caught after a chase.[3][5]The arrest was made under a special pre-Diwali drive against criminals and illegal activity in the Shri Krishnapuri station area.[3]
During questioning, Shivam Kumar named other members of his gang and some of the traffickers who supplied the ganja, and police were raiding to identify and arrest them.[5]
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Neither article gives a separate date for the raid; 5 November 2026 is the publication date of both accounts and is used as the incident date.
The ganja weight is given only as about one kilogram, so the figure is approximate.
No value for the seized ganja, the pistol's make or its licensing status was published.
Dainik Bhaskar reports only a pistol, while Deshpatra also reports two live cartridges; the report attributes the cartridge account to Deshpatra.
No case number, charge, court appearance or remand decision was reported.
The articles do not say where the ganja came from or whether anyone else was arrested.
Both outlets carry photos captioned only as the recovered items and the arrested youth; no credit or agency statement was published with them.
The ganja weight is given only as about one kilogram, so the figure remains approximate.
No value for the seized ganja, pistol make, case number, charge or court outcome was published.
The page's only image is labelled as a file photo of the Shri Krishnapuri station, so no new event photo is added.
The published page image is captioned as a file photo of the Shri Krishnapuri police station, so no photo of the raid or the recovery is added from this account.
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