50 ganja plants seized in Vadali farm raid; one held in Chotila
Surendranagar SOG raided a farm at Vadali village in Chotila and seized 50 green ganja plants weighing 16.09 kg, valued at Rs 804,500. A 51-year-old farmer was caught and booked under the NDPS Act at Anandpar police station.
🇮🇳 Vadali village, Chotila taluka, Surendranagar district, Gujarat · India
Surendranagar’s Special Operations Group (SOG), the district police’s special
operations unit, searched a farm on the outskirts of Vadali village in Chotila
taluka and caught the farmer working there.[1]The man was identified as
Vadali resident Panchabhai Nathabhai Meniya, aged about 51.[1]
Acting on a tip-off, the SOG team seized 50 green ganja plants, the local name
for cannabis, from the field.[2]Police valued the seized plants at Rs 804,500
(8.04 lakh).[1]
SOG inspector Y.P. Patel searched the Vadali farm after receiving the tip-off.[1]The drive followed instructions from the Rajkot Range deputy inspector
general and the Surendranagar police superintendent to act against NDPS offences
and drug trafficking.[1]Police said the circumstances of the cultivation and
whether anyone else was involved were still to be established in the
investigation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Divya Bhaskardivyabhaskar.co.inGUચોટીલામાં ગાંજાનું ગેરકાયદેસર વાવેતર ઝડપાયું: 50 છોડ સાથે 8.04 લાખનો મુદ્દામાલ જપ્ત, એક શખ્સ સામે ગુનો નોંધાયો - Chotila News
Open questions the AI reported
The articles give only publication dates of 23 and 24 October 2026 and no separate date for the raid, so 23 October 2026 is used as the incident date.
The sources spell the police station as Anandpar and Anandpur; the report uses Anandpar from the submitted article while noting the variant.
No custody or court outcome beyond registration of the case and start of investigation was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Divya Bhaskar: Police registered a case against him at the Anandpar police station in Chotila under the NDPS Act, India's narcotics law, and started further investigation.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Divya Bhaskar: Police said the plants weighed 16 kg 90 grams (16.09 kg).
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Arrested 18Plants destroyed 4,194Cannabis 2.7706 t
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Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
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