Tripura forces destroy more than 500,000 cannabis plants at Dulunga
A joint operation in Dulunga forest, Sonamura, destroyed more than 500,000 cannabis plants in 92 plots across around 170 acres on 1 February 2026. Officials estimated the destroyed crop at INR750 million. Northeast Herald describes the wider drive as continuing through 2 February.
🇮🇳 Dulunga forest, Sonamura subdivision, Sepahijala, Tripura · India
India Today NE reported that security forces carried out a joint cannabis-eradication operation in Dulunga forest under Sonamura subdivision on 1 February 2026.[1]The operation lasted nearly eight hours, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and personnel destroyed more than 500,000 cannabis plants in 92 plots spread across about 170 acres of forest land.[1]
Northeast Herald independently reported the destruction of more than five lakh plants worth an estimated ₹75 crore, in 92 sites covering nearly 170 acres of government forest land.[2]It said personnel from Sonamura and Jatrapur police stations, the BSF, TSR, CRPF and Forest Department participated, and that all plants were uprooted and destroyed on site.[2]
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India Today NEindiatodayne.inOver 5 lakh cannabis plants worth Rs 75 crore destroyed in Tripura anti-narcotics drive
Northeast Heraldneherald.comTripura police destroy over 5 lakh Ganja plants worth Rs 75 Cr in Sepahijala district
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India Today NE describes an approximately eight-hour operation on 1 February, while Northeast Herald describes raids on 1 and 2 February; this report uses 1 February as the incident date.
No cultivator was identified or arrested in the opened accounts.
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.
