Manduadih Police Arrest Raju Rajbhar After Paan-Shop Theft Opposite a Picket

Manduadih police on Sunday arrested Raju Rajbhar, a native of Dullhapur in Ghazipur who currently lives in Awalesshpur under Rohania, after a complaint of theft from a paan shop at Manduadih crossing, according to the station. The arrest was made on Sunday afternoon on the Nathupur–Bareka road. Police said they recovered 170 cigarette packets of various brands and Rs 3,000. SHO Digambar Upadhyay is handling the case. Allegations and recoveries at this stage remain subject to investigation and court process.

The FIR was lodged on 13 September 2026 by the shopkeeper, who alleged theft of goods worth about Rs 1.5 lakh from a paan shop opposite the police picket at Manduadih chauraha. Police said CCTV aided identification. After court production, the accused was sent to jail. The shopkeeper is not named in this file because the locked roundup did not carry a victim name; inventing one would be a desk error.

A theft allegation opposite a police picket is an awkward geography for any station. Manduadih’s brief does not soften that detail. The chauraha location, the picket opposite, the Nathupur–Bareka arrest point and the Awalesshpur–Rohania residence are the place stamps this desk locks. Dullhapur in Ghazipur is the native place police named for the accused.

Recovery of 170 cigarette packets and Rs 3,000 does not automatically equal the alleged Rs 1.5 lakh haul. It records what police say they found at the Sunday afternoon stop. The gap between the FIR’s alleged loss and the recovery list is a fact of the case file, not a puzzle for this copy to solve. Readers should hold both numbers as police-stated figures, not as a closed accounting.

CCTV identification, as police describe it, is how the accused was linked to the shop complaint before the Nathupur–Bareka arrest. This desk does not invent camera angles, timestamps or a chase narrative. The locked operational line is complaint, CCTV ID, Sunday afternoon arrest, recovery list, court production, jail.

This file is distinct from the Bareka Gumti Market double-shop burglary under the same Manduadih police station. Different premises, different accused status, different recovery story. Collapsing the two into one Manduadih theft pack would blur both. This piece is the paan-shop arrest with a named accused. The Gumti Market burglary is a separate overnight case still on the identification track.

Crime copy at arrest stage is a police account, not a conviction. Raju Rajbhar is an accused; the Rs 1.5 lakh figure is the complainant’s alleged loss; the cigarettes and cash are a stated recovery. Court production leading to jail closes the first custody loop. Further investigation will decide how the case advances.

For residents around Manduadih chauraha, the practical stamp is a named arrest after a shop theft complaint opposite the picket, with a recovery list on the register. For the station, it is a Sunday afternoon pick-up on the Nathupur–Bareka road under SHO Upadhyay. Until the court process moves further, those are the locked police facts without embellishment.