Police seize 850 cannabis plants at Bharsa Tarhul in Chhattisgarh
Bhanupratappur police seized 850 cannabis plants weighing about 8.66 kg from a pigeon-pea plot at Bharsa Tarhul on 26 August 2026 and arrested the grower, Subhash Koreti.
🇮🇳 Bharsa Tarhul, Bhanupratappur, Kanker district, Chhattisgarh · India
Bhanupratappur police arrested Subhash Koreti, 40, after acting on information about cannabis cultivation in his home garden at Bharsa Tarhul village on 26 August 2026.[1]Haribhoomi and Janta Se Rishta also report the arrest and identify the village as the site of the cultivation.[2][3]
Officers found the plants growing among pigeon pea and other crops and seized them with their roots and soil.[1]Amar Ujala reports 850 plants weighing about 8.66 kilograms and an estimated value of Rs 430,000; the two other accounts describe the count as more than 850 and do not give a weight.[1][2][3]
Police registered a case under sections 8 and 20(a) of India’s Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and presented Koreti in court.[1]
Photos and video
Police personnel and cannabis plants pictured with the Bhanupratappur report.Photo details
The reports give no later court outcome for Subhash Koreti.
The planted area and the source of the seeds were not reported.
Amar Ujala gives an exact count of 850 plants, while two local accounts describe the count as more than 850; the report keeps the exact count from the primary account.
Police in Udaipur district uprooted and seized 779.79 kg of green ganja plants grown illegally in the hills at Khara Kupiya, Mandwa. Three NDPS cases were registered at Mandwa police station against three residents and investigation began.
Police destroyed 467 cannabis plants growing in a villager's house compound at Binayipur in Nabarangpur district, Odisha, and arrested him. The Nabarangpur police registered a case under the NDPS Act, and a sub-divisional police officer gave the account of the raid to reporters.
Sepahijala superintendent of police Bijoy Debbarma said joint police, Tripura State Rifles and BSF teams destroyed at least 1.5 crore ganja plants in Sonamura subdivision over the past year, causing an estimated Rs 1,000 crore loss to the illegal trade. He said the crackdown lay behind a 2 November attack on a BSF team at Ashabari, after which police have arrested 21 people.
Koraput district police and excise teams destroyed 30,000 cannabis plants in joint raids, 12,000 of them at Atal Guda in the Boipariguda block and 18,000 in the Nandapur block, the district superintendent of police said. Koraput police said the Nandapur destruction covered about nine acres of hilly land near Kasandi and Dabuguda.
