1.64 lakh ganja plants destroyed in Gajapati forests
Police and Excise, Forest and Revenue officers destroyed about 1.64 lakh ganja plants grown illegally on forest land in the Raipanka panchayat of Gajapati district, Odisha, in an Operation Green Clean drive reported on 1 December 2024. The authorities valued the destroyed crop at about Rs 17 crore and deployed seven platoons of armed police for the operation.
🇮🇳 Raipanka panchayat, Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha · India
Police and Excise Department officers destroyed ganja plantations across wide areas of Gajapati district, Odisha, in a joint operation with Forest and Revenue Department officers.[1]The teams cleared plantations on over 82 acres (about 33 hectares) of land in the villages of Garada, Sikilmaha and Gunjipadar in Raipanka panchayat, under Adaba police limits.[1]The cannabis had been grown illegally on forest land, police said.[1]
The officers destroyed around 1.64 lakh (164,000) ganja plants as part of Operation Green Clean.[1]They estimated the market value of the destroyed crop at about Rs 17 crore.[1]As many as seven platoons of armed police were deployed for the operation.[1]The police and the Excise Department asked villagers not to take up illegal ganja cultivation.[1]
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