Nearly 19 lakh cannabis plants destroyed in Boxanagar drive
Tripura Police, the BSF and Tripura State Rifles jointly destroyed nearly 19 lakh cannabis plants across about 650 plantations in Boxanagar, Sepahijala district, over two days. The drive followed attacks on BSF personnel and renewed scrutiny of prior enforcement and the Nasha Mukt Tripura campaign.
🇮🇳 Boxanagar area, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
Tripura Police, the Border Security Force and Tripura State Rifles jointly
destroyed illegal cannabis plants spread across nearly 650 plantations in the
Boxanagar area of Sepahijala district over the past two days.[1]The destroyed
crop numbered nearly 19 lakh cannabis plants.[2]
Police sources said the operation covered forest areas, remote locations and
sensitive stretches along the Bangladesh border.[2]The plants, allegedly
grown for illegal trafficking and cross-border smuggling, were uprooted and
destroyed.[2]The crackdown followed recent attacks on BSF personnel in the
Kalamchoura-Boxanagar area, which raised concerns about border security and
organised illegal activity.[2]
The scale of the find raised the question of how about 650 plantations could
have been cultivated without earlier effective action by the authorities.[1]Allegations of political protection and local influence behind the illegal
cultivation were also reported.[1]The authorities now face the task of
identifying the cultivators, financiers and trafficking networks behind the
illegal trade.[2]
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The sources date the operation only as 'over the past two days'; 6 November 2026 is the publication date used as the incident date.
Nineteen lakh is converted to 1,900,000 plants; both sources describe the count as 'nearly' 19 lakh, so it is approximate.
No area in acres or hectares, seized weight or monetary value was published, so none is recorded.
Neither source names an arrest, charge or court outcome for this drive.
Whether any political representatives, officials, landowners or financiers were involved is unestablished; one source says those allegations require independent investigation.
Only two accessible outlets reporting this same joint drive were found.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Tripura Mail: The scale of the operation renewed questions about the effectiveness of the government's 'Nasha Mukt Tripura' campaign.
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.
