Farmer held as 75 ganja plants seized in Dhar field
Dasai police raided a field in Nihalpur village in Dhar district under Operation Prahar and seized 75 ganja plants grown among food crops. Officers arrested 40-year-old cultivator Rajaram and registered an NDPS Act case, valuing the seizure at about Rs 400,000.
🇮🇳 Nihalpur (Hanumantya Padampura), Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh · India
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 75
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 400,000
Dasai police, acting under the anti-narcotics drive Operation Prahar, raided a
field in Nihalpur village (Hanumantya Padampura) in Dhar district.[1] Officers
seized 75 small and large green ganja plants from the field.[1] Police
arrested 40-year-old Rajaram, also named as Raju and Radhu, son of Champalal
Ninama of Nihalpur, at the spot.[1]
The cannabis had been grown hidden among chilli, pigeon-pea and sugarcane crops.[1] Police put the estimated value of the seized plants at about Rs 400,000.[1] Dasai post in-charge Dinesh Singh Yadav said police received a tip on 30
October that Nihalpur resident Rajaram alias Raju had grown ganja illegally in
his field and informed senior officers.[1]
The raid team was formed under the direction of Dhar SP Sachin Sharma and the
guidance of ASP Parul Belapurkar, SDOP Vishwadeep Singh Parihar and Amjhera
station in-charge Raju Makwana.[1] Police registered a case against the
accused under the NDPS Act and said further legal proceedings were under way.[1]
Sources
- ऑपरेशन प्रहार: दसई पुलिस की बड़ी कार्रवाई, खेत से गांजे के 75 हरे पौधे जब्त।. AIMA Media, 1 November 2026. In Hindi.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives a publication timestamp of 01 Nov 2026 and a tip date of 30 October but no separate raid date; 01 Nov is used as the incident date.
- The accused alias is spelled Raju in the tip passage and Radhu in the arrest passage; both printed forms are noted.
- No field area, plant weight or court outcome beyond NDPS case registration was published.
- Only one accessible source was found despite searches in Hindi and English.
- The page embeds a video and an og:image thumbnail with no caption or credit establishing that either shows this seizure, so no media entry is made.