Farmer held after more than 500 cannabis plants found in a red-gram field
On 18 October 2026 Basavana Bagewadi police in Vijayapura district, Karnataka, raided a farm in Dindawar village and arrested Sharanappa Jeer, 56, after finding more than 500 cannabis plants grown amid red gram. They weighed the cannabis at 202.75 kg and valued it at ₹1,01,37,500.
🇮🇳 Dindawar village, Basavana Bagewadi taluk, Vijayapura, Karnataka · India
On 18 October 2026 the special narcotics vigilance cell of Basavana Bagewadi police station raided a
farm in Dindawar village in Basavana Bagewadi taluk of Vijayapura district, Karnataka.[1][2][3][4]Officers said the farmer had grown red gram (toor) on the edges of the plot and more than 500
cannabis plants in the middle.[1][2]
They arrested Sharanappa Jeer, 56, also named in local coverage as Shivashankar Sharanappa Jeer,
registered a case under the NDPS Act, and seized cannabis they weighed at 202.75 kilograms, valued
at ₹1,01,37,500.[1][2]Superintendent of Police Laxman Nimbargi credited officers including
Chandrakant Nandareddy and Gurushanth Dashyal.[1][2]
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Police and others with white sacks from the Dindawar seizure, and a portrait of the arrested farmer.Photo details
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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.
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