Paan shopkeeper arrested with 960 g of ganja in Samastipur
Muffasil police in Samastipur, Bihar, arrested 25-year-old paan shopkeeper Rajiv Kumar after finding 960 grams of ganja at his shop near Shivnandan Chowk on a tip-off. An FIR was registered under the NDPS Act and police were sending him to judicial custody.
🇮🇳 Shivnandan Chowk, Muffasil police station area, Samastipur, Bihar · India
Muffasil police in Samastipur, Bihar, arrested a paan shopkeeper near Shivnandan
Chowk and recovered 960 grams of ganja from his shop.[1]
The raid followed a tip-off that ganja was being sold near Shivnandan Chowk,
station house officer Ajit Prasad Singh said.[1]Officers raided the paan shop
beside the bypass embankment.[1]Kumar ran the shop beside the chowk and used
it as cover to sell ganja.[1]Police were investigating how long Kumar had
been selling ganja and where he obtained it.[1]
Singh said the seized ganja would be sent to Assam for testing.[1]He said the
ganja was likely worth lakhs of rupees.[1]Kumar was being processed to be
sent to judicial custody.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
960 g
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Sale
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Hindustanlivehindustan.comHISamastipur News: पान दुकान की आड़ में गांजा बेचते धराया दुकानदार, 960 ग्राम गांजा बरामद
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Neither report gives a separate date for the raid; 29 October 2026 is the publication date of the earliest account.
The police gave no exact market value, saying only that the ganja was likely worth lakhs of rupees.
The reports do not name the NDPS Act sections used, and no court hearing or outcome was reported; police said Kumar was being sent to judicial custody.
Dainik Bhaskar says the search team included a magistrate; Hindustan describes a police team.
Neither report published a photograph of the shop, the seized ganja or the arrested man.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: The shopkeeper was Rajiv Kumar, 25, son of Nandlal Rai and a resident of Ward No. 17 in Jitwarpur Chouth.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: The search team included a magistrate as well as police.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police described the raid as part of a district campaign against illegal narcotics.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dainik Bhaskar: Police registered a first information report (FIR) against Kumar under relevant sections of the NDPS Act and seized the ganja.
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