Dhar police seize 684 cannabis plants from four farms, arrest two
Police in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, seized 684 cannabis plants weighing 1,155.8 kg from four farms in late-night raids on 29 October 2026. Two farmers were arrested and two were absconding; all four were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
🇮🇳 Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh · India
- Arrested
- 2
- Charged
- 4
- Plants destroyed
- 684
- Cannabis
- 1.1558 t
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 12,754,000
Four farmers were booked under Section 8/20 of the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act after police in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh,
raided their farms in four police station areas late on Thursday 29 October
2026.[1] Rajod police arrested Nana Lal Popandya at his house near his
Nipawali farm, and he was to be produced in court on Saturday.[1] Sardarpur
police arrested Tolaram Pataliya, 58, after raiding his farm at Khamaliya
village, and he was also to be produced in court on Saturday.[1] Ramesh
Solanki fled Kota village after learning of the raid and was absconding.[1]
Rajaram Waskel could not be found after the Panjariya raid and was absconding.[1]
At Kota village, about 14 km from Gandhwani, police seized 400 plants weighing
693 kg and valued at Rs 75 lakh from Solanki’s farm.[1] Sub-inspector Suraj
Singh Parmar said the plants there were grown among a cotton crop.[1] At
Nipawali, Rajod police seized 30 plants weighing 27.5 kg and valued at Rs 30,000
from Popandya’s farm, opposite a Honda showroom.[1] At Khamaliya, Sardarpur
police seized 240 plants weighing 385 kg and valued at Rs 46.2 lakh from
Pataliya’s farm.[1] At Panjariya, Dharampuri police found 14 plants weighing
50.3 kg and worth Rs 6.04 lakh on Waskel’s farm.[1]
Police described the Gandhwani, Rajod and Sardarpur actions as part of Operation Prahar, a district drive against illegal drug cultivation and trade.[2] In those station areas, officers recovered cannabis plants growing among pigeon pea, known locally as tuar, and cotton.[2]
Sources
- Cannabis plants worth Rs 1 crore seized from four agricultural farms in Dhar district. The Times of India, 31 October 2026.
- धार में नशे के खिलाफ पुलिस का बड़ा एक्शन, तीन अलग-अलग स्थानों से 1105 किलो गांजा बरामद, दो आरोपी गिरफ्तार. MP Breaking News, 30 October 2026. In Hindi.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article dates the raids only to 'Thursday'; 29 October 2026 is inferred from its publication at 00:50 on 31 October and the two arrested men's scheduled court production on Saturday.
- The headline puts the haul at Rs 1 crore, while the four itemised police valuations in the text add up to Rs 1.2754 crore; the report uses the itemised figures.
- No figure for the area of the four fields, and no statement on whether the seized plants were destroyed, was published.
- No court outcome beyond the two arrested men's scheduled production on 31 October was reported.
- Only one source, The Times of India, could be found for the four-farm operation.
- The page carried no photograph of the raids; its article image is a generic thumbnail used across the site, so no media is linked.
- MP Breaking News gives 1,105 kg, valued at about 1 crore 24 lakh rupees, from three station areas, with two arrests and one person absconding, and does not mention the Dharampuri farm already in this report; the itemised Times of India totals are kept.
- The page gives no separate date for the raids; 30 October 2026 is its publication date.
- Its only photo is captioned “Dhar News” and does not show that it is this seizure, so it is not linked. A video file is named in page metadata but was not verified as footage of the raids.
