Excise and forest officials seized 292 ganja plants weighing 213 kg grown inside the BRT Tiger Reserve on 26 September 2026. Cases were registered against five residents of a Hanur hamlet.
Excise Department officials seized 292 ganja plants weighing 213 kg grown inside the Koli Hatti Forest area at Dodda Sampige Reserve Forest in the BRT Tiger Reserve on 26 September.[1]Acting on a tip-off, excise and Forest Department teams conducted a joint operation and registered cases against five people who had grown the plants illegally.[1]
The Excise Department registered a case under the NDPS Act, while the Forest Department registered a case under the Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972 against five residents of Nalli Katri Podu in Hanur taluk, aged from 35 to 70.[1]The operation was guided by BRT Tiger Reserve Deputy Conservator of Forests and Director B.S. Sripathi, with Excise Deputy Superintendent of Police K.Y. Vijayakumar, Byluru Range Forest Officer D. Devaraju and Kollegal Excise Inspector C.M. Dayanand among the team.[1]
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Excise and forest officials with the seized ganja plants inside the BRT Tiger Reserve forest. Photo: Star of Mysore.Photo details
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.
