Tanda police in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, searched a cotton field at Pura village and found 383 green ganja plants growing illegally.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Police formally seized all the plants.[1][3][5][7] The seized plants weighed 363.188 kg and were put at an estimated market value of about 67 lakh 13 thousand rupees.[1][4][6][8] Police arrested one suspect and registered a case under the NDPS Act, India’s narcotics law.[1][4][5][6][9][7][8]

The raid was part of Operation Prahar, a district campaign against illegal drug cultivation and trade run on the direction of Superintendent of Police Sachin Sharma.[1][4][6][9][8] Tanda police described the seizure as the third major action taken under Operation Prahar.[8] Additional Superintendent of Police Dhar Vijay Davar and SDOP Kukshi O.P. Ahir guided the search team.[8] Tanda police received a tip from an informer that ganja was being grown in a cotton field at Pura, and searched the field on that basis.[1][9][8] The informer’s tip named Mulam Singh Davar, son of Gulab Singh Davar of Jogiya village, as the man who had planted ganja in his own cotton field at Pura.[8]

Tanda station in-charge inspector Baldev Singh Mujalda said on Tuesday that Mulam Singh Davar, 26, of Jogiya village, had been arrested.[1] A case was registered against him under section 8/20 of the NDPS Act and taken up for investigation.[1] The case was recorded as crime number 200/2026 and Mulam Singh Davar was arrested on 9 November 2026.[8] Police said they were questioning the accused about the purpose of the cultivation, where the seeds came from, the supply of the drug and other people involved in the trade.[1][3][4][5][7]