Police arrested 48-year-old Joginder Bhagat in Nimcha, Raniganj, seizing about 1.6 kg of ganja stored in plastic buckets in an abandoned house near his home. He was due before the Asansol CJM court with police seeking seven-day remand, and police said he had a prior ganja-trafficking arrest in Jamuria.
🇮🇳 Nimcha, Raniganj · India
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Arrested
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Cannabis
1.6 kg
Police raided Nimcha in Raniganj on Tuesday night on a tip-off and recovered
ganja said to be worth about one lakh rupees.[1][2]Police arrested 48-year-old
Joginder Bhagat on a ganja-trafficking allegation.[1][2][3]The raiding team
belonged to the Nimcha outpost under Raniganj police station of the
Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate.[4][3]The team was led by Nimcha outpost
in-charge LSI Nasrin Sultana, who first caught Bhagat and then questioned him.[1][2]
Police said he had brought ganja from outside and was preparing to move it
elsewhere for trafficking.[1][2][3]During questioning he admitted storing the ganja
in an abandoned house near his home.[1][2][3]Police cordoned off that house,
searched it with him present and recovered the stock kept in several plastic
buckets.[1][2]On weighing, the haul was about 1 kg600 g, which police said he
had stored for trafficking outside the area.[4][3]
He was to be produced before the CJM court at Asansol district court on
Wednesday, with police seeking seven days of police remand for further
questioning.[1][2][3]Police said he had previously been arrested in a
ganja-trafficking case in the commissionerate’s Jamuria area.[1][2][3]Police said
the action was part of a continuing drive against drug trafficking across the
commissionerate.[1]Police said they were working to trace where the ganja
came from and where it was to be sent.[1][3]
Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate DC Central Dhruv Das said sustained naka checking and raids had produced recoveries in Jamuria and Raniganj.[2][3]
The article names Tuesday night for the raid without a calendar date; 3 November 2026 is inferred because the report was published on Wednesday, 4 November 2026.
The seizure is described only as worth about or over one lakh rupees, so no precise value is recorded.
No court outcome was reported; the accused was to be produced on Wednesday and police had sought seven days of police remand.
Police had not yet traced where the ganja came from or where it was to be sent; further questioning was under way.
The exact address of the abandoned house was not given beyond being near the accused's home in Nimcha.
No separate official police statement was found; both accounts are the Bengali original and Hindi version from Bengal Mirror.
Photos on the pages carry no captions establishing that they show this seizure, so no media entry is included.
The new account transliterates the accused's name as Yoginder Bhagat while the existing report uses Joginder Bhagat; they are treated as the same 48-year-old detainee on the basis of matching age, place, quantity and history.
This account spells the accused's name Yoginder Bhagat while the existing report uses Joginder Bhagat; matching age, place, quantity and prior Jamuria history indicate the same detainee.
The Tez Tarrar page image has no caption or credit establishing that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is added.
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