57 of 90 people drug-tested in Adilabad drive were positive for ganja
Adilabad police searched the homes of suspects from 5 am in a district-wide drive against ganja, testing 90 people and finding 57 who had used it; several were referred to de-addiction. Police said the district logged ganja cases against 221 people in a year, seized 23 kg worth Rs 1.68 crore, found 1,632 plants in fields and stopped welfare funds on about 250 acres.
🇮🇳 Adilabad and Utnoor police sub-divisions, Adilabad district, Telangana · India
Police in Adilabad district carried out an early-morning drive against ganja and
other intoxicants, testing 90 people and finding 57 who had used ganja, under
Superintendent of Police Akhil Mahajan.[1]From 5 am, teams searched the homes
of suspects in the Adilabad and Utnoor police sub-divisions.[2]Officers said
the goal was a drug-free district.[2]
Police said that in the previous year the district registered ganja cases
against 221 people and seized23 kg of ganja worth Rs 1.68 crore.[1]Officers
also identified and seized 1,632 ganja plants grown illegally in fields in the
district.[1]Officers filed cases against more than 100 farmers for illegal
cultivation and suspended Rythu Bharosa welfare funds on about 250 acres.[1]
Photos and video
Page picture captioned with the headline about Adilabad police's special drive against ganja gangs and 57 positive drug tests; no credit is given.Photo details
V6 Velugu dates the checks to Wednesday and Sakshi to Thursday; the report uses Wednesday 4 November 2026, the earlier of the two accounts.
The area is a Rythu Bharosa landholding figure, not a measured cannabis cultivation area, and no hectares figure is recorded.
The district totals for cases, seizures and plants cover the past year's police work rather than this single drive alone, so they are not recorded as figures for this event.
The reports do not name the individuals tested, say how many were charged over consumption or whether any court action followed; only that several were referred for de-addiction.
No quantity of ganja was seized during the drive itself.
The V6 Velugu page photo is captioned with the headline and is not established to show this drive, so it is linked rather than treated as a documentary cover.
Only Telugu-language accounts were found; no police statement or English-language report was opened.
The text gives a number of plants ("1,632 plants") but the figures have no plants_destroyed; check whether it belongs there.
The text gives a weight ("23 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Chopda Rural police raided forest land at Khanayapadaw on 11 November 2026 and seized 1,870 kg of ganja-like plants police valued at Rs 4.67 crore. The accused cultivator fled and no arrest was reported; samples were kept for chemical testing.
Kalyanpura police in Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh, raided a field where cannabis was grown among a pigeon pea crop in Kheda village and seized 105 green plants weighing 82.55 kg. Police arrested the farm's owner and valued the plants at 784,000 rupees, though the case details sit behind the outlet's app login.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
Udaynagar police uprooted more than 30 cannabis plants weighing 65 kg from a pigeon pea field at Kavtiapani village in Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, after a drone survey. Police valued the plants at about Rs 2 lakh and registered an NDPS Act case against the field's owner, Poonam Mujalde.
Gattu police searched a field at the edge of Boyalagudem village in Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana, on Saturday 7 November 2026 and seized four cannabis plants said to be growing there. The plants were in a field belonging to Govindu, a farmer from Lingapuram village, who was taken into custody, questioned and named in a case, Gattu sub-inspector Kalyan Kumar said.
