3 bighas of cannabis destroyed at Bamanpara, Alipurduar
Alipurduar police destroyed illegal cannabis cultivation spread across 3 bighas at Bamanpara village on 2 November 2026. Landowners Parimal Karjee and Tapas Karjee fled the raid and police said a search for them was under way.
🇮🇳 Bamanpara, Salkumar-II panchayat, Alipurduar district, West Bengal · India
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On Monday afternoon, personnel from Alipurduar police station reached Bamanpara,
a village under the Salkumar-II panchayat of Alipurduar district, to act against
illegal cannabis cultivation.[1] Inspector-in-charge Anirban Bhattacharjee led
the operation at the village plots.[1] Police identified the cultivation plots
as belonging to landowners Parimal Karjee and Tapas Karjee.[1] Both men evaded
the police during the raid, managing to give officers the slip before they could
be detained.[1] Police said a search for the two landowners was under way
after the clearance.[1]
Police found the illegal cannabis crop spread across 3 bighas of land, about
0.40 hectares on the West Bengal measure where one bigha is about 0.1338
hectares.[1] Officers destroyed the standing cannabis cultivation on that land
during the operation.[1] The operation treated the 3-bigha cannabis crop as
illegal cultivation to be cleared from the village plots.[1]
A panchayat is the local rural administrative area, and Salkumar-II is the
panchayat area named for Bamanpara in the police account.[1]
Sources
- Red sandalwood worth Rs 9 lakh found floating in Torsha, four arrested. Telegraph India, 3 November 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article was published on 3 November 2026 and dates the operation only to Monday afternoon; 2 November 2026 is used as the incident date by inference.
- The 0.40-hectare figure is converted from 3 West Bengal bighas at about 0.1338 hectares per bigha; the bigha varies by state and no metric area was published.
- No number of plants, seized weight or crop value was published for the Bamanpara clearance.
- No arrests were reported at Bamanpara; whether the later search detained Parimal Karjee and Tapas Karjee is not reported.
- Only one source for this event could be opened; searches for a second account of the Bamanpara operation found no corroboration.
- The same article reports a separate cannabis clearance of about 3.5 bighas at Kishamat-Dasgram in Dinhata-II block, Cooch Behar, left out here as a different event.
- The same article's red sandalwood seizure of about 48 kg and four arrests in Jaigaon is unrelated to cannabis and is excluded from this report.
- The page's lead image is captioned as a representational image and does not show this event, so no media entry is added.
