Wild cannabis cleared from 15 acres in Delhi memorial parks
The Narcotics Control Bureau destroyed wild cannabis growing over about 15 acres in the Shantivan and Shaktisthal areas of Delhi after it was detected on 22 and 23 March 2001; with the growth wild, no one could be held responsible.
Wild cannabis plants were found growing over about 15 acres (about six hectares) in the Shantivan and Shaktisthal areas of Delhi on 22 and 23 March 2001.[1]The Narcotics Control Bureau destroyed the plants.[1]
The details come from the government’s written answer to Unstarred Question No. 6096 in the Lok Sabha, answered on 27 April 2001 by Minister of State for Finance Gingee N. Ramachandran.[1]Asked who was responsible and what punishment was proposed, the minister replied that the growth was wild, so responsibility could not be fixed on any individual.[1]
Case data
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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.
