Three cannabis plants seized from a Jalna cotton field; farmer held
Badnapur police seized three cannabis plants weighing 5.65 kg, valued at ₹2.80 lakh, from a cotton field at Gevrai Bazar in Jalna district, and arrested the man they say grew them. A police team raided the farm with a naib tehsildar and a deputy agriculture officer and began legal proceedings.
🇮🇳 Gevrai Bazar, Badnapur tehsil, Jalna district, Maharashtra · India
Badnapur police seized three cannabis plants weighing 5.65 kg from a cotton
field at Gevrai Bazar in Badnapur tehsil, Jalna district, on Thursday.[1]One
person was arrested in connection with the case.[1]
Police put the value of the seized plants at ₹2.80 lakh.[1]Police Inspector
MT Survase received a confidential tip that a resident of Gevrai Bazar had
cultivated cannabis in his field, Survey No. 90, and was watering and
fertilising the plants regularly.[1]
A police team led by Police Sub-Inspector Santosh Kuklare carried out a surprise
raid on the farm, accompanied by Naib Tehsildar Tayde and Deputy Agriculture
Officer Mohan Auti.[1]The team found the cannabis growing among the cotton in
the accused’s field and seized the plants.[1]Police arrested the man and
began legal proceedings against him.[1]
Photos and video
The photograph run with the report on the Badnapur raid; the page carries no caption or credit beyond the headline alt text, so it cannot be confirmed to show the seized plants.Photo details
The article says the raid was on Thursday but gives no date; the Thursday before publication, 5 November 2026, is used as the incident date, with 8 November 2026 as the publication date.
The weight is given as 5.65 kg and as 5 kg 650 grams, which agree.
The plants were seized but the article does not say whether they were uprooted or destroyed afterwards.
The article does not state the charges or the section of the NDPS Act applied, only that legal proceedings were initiated.
No court appearance, remand or further outcome for the arrested man was reported.
No figure for the area of the cannabis plot was published.
Only one accessible text source for this raid was found; short video and Instagram posts of the same raid appeared in searches but could not be opened as reporting.
The page photograph is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit, so it is linked rather than confirmed to show the seized plants.
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
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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.
