On 14 October 2025 a joint team of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, the district anti-narcotics unit and Pudur Police trekked nearly five hours through dense forest to the foothills of Sathyakkallumala in Attappady, Palakkad district.[1][2] Acting on intelligence from ATS deputy inspector general Putta Vimaladitya, and overseen by district police chief Ajith Kumar, they found about 10,000 three-month-old cannabis plants spread over 60 cents of land and uprooted them on the spot.[1][3] Officers called it one of the biggest ganja raids in Kerala Police history, and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan publicly commended the force.[1] No one was arrested at the site and the growers remain unidentified, with police tracing possible wider trafficking links.[1]