Supaul district police raided a house in Mahadevapatti village in the Lalitgram police-station area and recovered 19 kilograms of ganja.[1][2] Prabhat Khabar reported that Lalitgram police acted on a secret tip and raided the house, then formally seized the ganja.[3]

Superintendent of police Sharath R S said Lalitgram police received a secret tip on 5 November that two brothers living in Ward 3 of the village were keeping and selling illegal drugs from their home.[1] On the superintendent’s orders, a special team led by the Supaul sub-divisional police officer carried out the raid and search in the presence of a magistrate.[1]

Police seized the ganja and registered a first information report under the NDPS Act, India’s narcotics law.[1][2] Police said they had begun investigating the ganja’s backward and forward links to identify others in the trade.[1][2] Neither account reported that anyone was arrested in the raid, and Hindusthan Samachar said police were preparing to act to arrest others involved in the trafficking.[1]