Chanderi police seized 38 cannabis plants from two houses in Kanwata village in Ashoknagar district.[1] Police arrested Vikesh Yadav, 20, and Sachin alias Bablu Yadav, 25.[1] The plants had been grown in a house courtyard and in a khera, an open plot behind a house.[2] A case was registered against both men under the NDPS Act, India’s main drug law.[1]

Police said the uprooted plants together weighed 54 kg 860 g.[1] Police put their estimated total value at Rs 24,000.[1] Vikesh Yadav had grown 13 small and large plants among other plants in his house courtyard.[1] Officers uprooted those plants and weighed them.[1] That lot weighed 18 kg 800 g and was valued at about Rs 8,000.[1] Sachin Yadav had 25 small and large plants in the khera behind his house.[1] That lot weighed 36 kg 60 g and was valued at about Rs 16,000.[1]

The district police chief said action against illegal cultivation, storage, transport and sale of narcotics would continue across the district.[1] He appealed to residents to pass information about such activity to police.[1] He said the identities of people who give information would be kept secret.[1]