Joint Railway Team Seizes 6.2 kg Cannabis From Vaishali Man at Varanasi Cantt

A joint team of the Government Railway Police, the Railway Protection Force and the Crime Investigation Branch seized 6.2 kilograms of cannabis near the Platform 1 signal office at Varanasi Cantt railway station and arrested Kunal Kumar of Raghavpur in Vaishali district, Bihar, according to officers named in Wednesday’s action briefings. The seizure has been moved on an NDPS challan track, and local accounts cited an international market value of about ₹6 lakh for the recovered quantity.

The operation is distinct from the already-published Cantt mobile-theft arrests that appeared in an earlier Varanasi batch. This file is a narcotics seizure at a defined platform-side location, with a named accused and a named joint team — not a pickpocket or phone-snatch story.

Inspector Rajol Nagar is listed among the GRP leads on the action. Sub-inspectors Sohanpal Verma and Raj Bahadur, CIB assistant sub-inspector Rakesh Kumar Singh, constable Satish Kumar and RPF constable Virendra Kumar are the other officers named in the same briefings. Naming the team is how railway crime copy stays accountable: readers can see which units shared the stop near the signal office.

Platform 1’s signal-office belt is a working zone where railway staff, porters and passengers mix at the edge of operational infrastructure. Joint GRP–RPF–CIB checks in that pocket are meant to catch contraband moving with trains rather than only inside booked coaches. A 6.2 kilogram cannabis recovery is a mid-weight NDPS find by station standards — large enough for a full challan process, not a trace packet brushed aside as personal use.

Kunal Kumar’s Vaishali address places the accused on a Bihar–eastern Uttar Pradesh rail corridor that frequently appears in narcotics interdiction notes. The desk records the residence as stated by police and does not invent a trafficking-network map beyond the seizure and arrest. The ~₹6 lakh international-market figure is an attributed valuation from the briefing stream, not an independent laboratory appraisal published to this desk.

NDPS procedure after a station seizure typically runs through weighing, sealing, sampling and court production. Those steps will decide how the 6.2 kilogram case advances; this article locks the police action, not a finished conviction. Allegations at the arrest stage remain subject to investigation and trial.

For passengers using Varanasi Cantt, the practical takeaway is that multi-agency checks continue around platform working areas even when other crime headlines dominate the station file. For the crime desk, the locked facts are straightforward: 6.2 kg cannabis seized near Platform 1 signal office, Kunal Kumar of Raghavpur, Vaishali, arrested, NDPS process begun, and the named GRP–RPF–CIB team on the record for Wednesday’s joint action.
Railway stations remain preferred choke points for cannabis moving between Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh because through trains compress distance and inspection windows. A joint stop at the signal-office edge is meant to catch bags before they dissolve into platform crowds. Whether later investigation maps a wider supply chain beyond Kunal Kumar is a question for the NDPS file, not for speculation in this report.