Samastipur shopkeeper jailed after raid finds ganja and 61 g of smack
Police raided a grocery shop at Dumra Chowk in Samastipur's Shivajinagar police station area and seized smack, ganja, other drugs and cigarettes filled with ganja. The shopkeeper was arrested and sent to jail, and police were looking for four people over a separate liquor find in a forest nearby.
🇮🇳 Dumra Chowk, Shivajinagar police station area, Samastipur, Bihar · India
Police in Samastipur’s Shivajinagar police station area raided a grocery shop at
Dumra Chowk and recovered smack, ganja, other intoxicating substances and
cigarettes stuffed with ganja.[1]The shopkeeper was arrested and sent to
jail.[1][2]
Police said the 61 grams of smack and the ganja were seized from the grocery
shop.[1][2]
The search found 22 grams of ganja, 20 cigarettes filled with ganja and five grams of a brown intoxicating substance under the shop’s wooden counter, alongside the 61 grams of smack.[2]The station house officer said the raid followed a tip-off and was allowed by the Rosra sub-divisional officer, who deputed a block development officer as the empowered magistrate to witness the search.[2]The shopkeeper tried to run when he saw the police and was caught after a chase.[2]All the intoxicating substances were weighed in the presence of the magistrate and formally seized.[2]
Case data
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The page gives no date for the raid; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight was published for the ganja, the other intoxicating substances or the ganja-filled cigarettes, so only the 61 grams of smack is stated as a quantity.
The page does not say what the other intoxicating substances were, or whether the smack and the ganja were packaged for sale.
No charge, case number, court appearance or value was reported for the shop raid.
The 256 litres of liquor found at Satbigahi Gachhi forest is a separate case and is not counted in this report's figures.
Only this Live Hindustan page could be opened; no agency statement or second outlet account was found.
The report is an automatically published print story, which gives it the same short, non-byline bureau format as other district crime briefs.
The page gives no date for the raid beyond saying it happened on Friday night; 7 November 2026 is its publication date.
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