One arrested as police seize 183 cannabis plants in Bidar field
Police in Bidar district seized 183 raw cannabis plants weighing 8.82 kg from a field on the outskirts of Mudabi village and arrested the man who grew them. Officers valued the plants at Rs 4.41 lakh and handed the accused over to judicial custody.
🇮🇳 Mudabi village, Basavakalyana taluk, Bidar, Karnataka · India
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 183
- Cannabis
- 8.8 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 441,000
Mudabi police arrested a man who had grown ganja, or cannabis, on his field on
the outskirts of Mudabi village, in Basavakalyana taluk of Bidar district.[1]
Officers seized 183 raw plants weighing 8 kg 820 g, which police valued at Rs
4.41 lakh.[2] Police acted on information that cannabis was being grown in the
field, and the raid was carried out on the direction of Bidar Superintendent of
Police Pradeep Gunti.[2] The field is within the limits of the Mudabi police
station.[2]
The accused was handed over to judicial custody.[3] A case was filed at the
Mudabi police station.[3]
Speaking about the raid, Gunti said that growing, consuming and supplying
narcotics is a crime and that anyone involved in such activity would face legal
action.[2] He urged the public not to take part in such activity and ruin
their own and their families’ futures.[2] He added that the district police
would keep up their operations to make Bidar a drug-free district.[1]
Sources
- Bidar police raid field in Basavakalyana taluk; arrest man growing ganja, seize Rs 4.4-lakh worth plants. Vartha Bharati, 3 October 2026.
- ಬೀದರ್ | 4 ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂ.ಗೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಮೌಲ್ಯದ ಗಾಂಜಾ ಗಿಡ ವಶ : ಆರೋಪಿಯ ಬಂಧನ. Vartha Bharati, 2 October 2026. In Kannada.
- Over 8 kg of ganja worth lakhs cultivated in field seized, 1 arrested in Bidar village. Public TV English, 3 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The reports do not give the date of the raid; 2 October 2026 is the publication date of the first report.
- Vartha Bharati's English edition gives the weight as 'about 8.9 kg' and the value as Rs 4.4 lakh, while the Kannada report and Public TV give 8 kg 820 g; the Kannada report gives the value as Rs 4,41,000. The figures here use 8.82 kg and Rs 4.41 lakh.
- The accused is not named; no charge, court date or sentence has been reported.
- The village is spelt Mudbi in the Kannada report and Mudabi in the English reports; the coordinates are for Mudabi village in Basavakalyana taluk.