J&K Police and Excise Department uproot wild cannabis at Lar and Wandhama
J&K Police in Ganderbal and the Excise Department conducted a joint wild-cannabis destruction drive at Lar, Wandhama and adjoining areas on 27 August 2026, identifying, uprooting and destroying wild plants along roadsides and at other locations.
🇮🇳 Lar, Wandhama and adjoining areas, Ganderbal district, Jammu and Kashmir · India
On 27 August 2026, J&K Police in Ganderbal and the Excise Department conducted a joint Wild Cannabis Destruction Drive at Lar, Wandhama and adjoining areas under the “Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir” campaign.[1][2]
During the drive, teams identified wild cannabis growing along roadsides and at other locations, then systematically uprooted and destroyed the plants.[1][2]
The opened accounts give no quantity, area, plant count, arrest or later case outcome for the operation.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Neither opened account gives the number of plants, area cleared or weight destroyed.
Neither opened account reports an arrest, suspect, charge or later case outcome.
The two opened accounts give the same short description and appear to repeat a press-release account; no independent quantitative report was located.
The operation is described across Lar, Wandhama and adjoining areas, so the coordinates are an approximate district reference rather than a plot location.
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