38.6 kg ganja seized from school bags on Patna bus; five held
Police at Bhagwanpur in Vaishali district seized 38.6 kg of marijuana from five bags aboard a Jaynagar to Patna bus and arrested five people, including three minors aged 13 to 16 who were carrying ganja concealed in school bags.
🇮🇳 Bhagwanpur Adda Chowk, Bhagwanpur, Vaishali, Bihar · India
Police in Bihar’s Vaishali district seized38.6 kg of marijuana from five bags aboard a bus travelling from Jaynagar to Patna, arresting five people including three minors aged 13 to 16.[1]
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Bhagwanpur Police and the Patna Prohibition Department set up a checkpoint at Bhagwanpur Adda Chowk and stopped the Patna-bound bus.[1]Officers searching suspicious passengers found packets of marijuana concealed inside the school bags carried by the minors.[1]
The five suspects were taken into custody under Operation Neelkanth.[1]Police said the group was travelling to Patna to supply the drugs, legal proceedings were started against all the accused, and investigators were tracing where the consignment came from and who was to receive it in Patna.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No second source for this interception could be found.
The headline and body round the haul to 38 kg while the detailed account gives 38.6 kg; the report uses 38.6 kg.
The article gives no separate date for the interception; 15 September 2026 is its publication date.
The article also mentions a separate seizure of about 72 kg of cannabis from two cars near the Bhagwanpur overbridge two days earlier, a different event left out here.
The five accused are not named and the source and intended recipient of the consignment were still being traced.
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