Drone-led Falakata raids cut and burn cannabis in 50 house yards
Falakata police in West Bengal's Alipurduar district used drone cameras to find cannabis being grown secretly in household courtyards, then cut and burned the plants found in about 50 houses across six gram panchayat areas. No open-field cultivation was found, no arrests were reported, and police warned the house owners of legal action if they grow the plant again.
🇮🇳 Mayradanga, Shalkumar, Devgaon, Jateshwar, Guabarnagar and Falakata-II gram panchayats, Falakata block, Alipurduar district, West Bengal · India
Falakata police in Alipurduar district, West Bengal, used drone cameras to spot
cannabis, called ganja locally, being grown secretly in household courtyards.[1]Teams then went door to door, raiding about 50 houses and cutting the
cannabis plants growing there, which they burned on the spot.[1]The operation
on Friday, 6 November 2026, caused a stir across the area.[1]After the
operation police issued a strong warning to the owners of the houses concerned.[1]
The action followed orders from the Alipurduar district superintendent of police
for a continuing surveillance campaign against narcotics in the area.[1]Several police teams deployed with drone cameras in the Mayradanga, Shalkumar,
Devgaon, Jateshwar, Guabarnagar and Falakata-II gram panchayat areas of Falakata
block.[1]The drone cameras captured images of cannabis plants growing in the
courtyards of several houses, and police then went to those houses to act.[1]Inspector-in-charge Tamal Das of Falakata police station led the campaign.[1]
Police sources said cannabis cultivation was found in the yards of an average of
eight to ten houses in each gram panchayat area.[1]No case of cannabis grown
in the open was found.[1]Police said anyone found illegally growing cannabis
in a house yard or compound in future would face strict legal action.[1]
Photos and video
Police personnel burning the cannabis plants cut from household yards during the Falakata operation, as captioned on the page (गांजे के पौधों को जलाते पुलिसकर्मी); the page gives no credit.Photo details
The article gives the operation date as Friday, 6 November 2026, which is also its publication date; no separate date or start time for the drone survey was given.
No count of the cannabis plants destroyed, no weight and no area were published, so only the 50 houses are recorded as sites.
The 50 houses are an approximate figure police sources gave, and the eight-to-ten houses per panchayat is an average.
No arrests, charges or court outcome were reported; police only warned the house owners.
The exact villages of Mayradanga, Shalkumar, Devgaon, Jateshwar and Guabarnagar are not placed in the article, so the coordinates are for Falakata block and the precision is district.
Only one accessible account of this operation could be opened; searches in Bengali found separate Falakata-area yard clearances at Ghatpar Sarugaon on 5 November and at Mujnai in Madarihat, which are different events.
The page photograph is captioned only that police are burning cannabis plants, with no credit, so it is linked rather than treated as a cover.
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