Garhwa team destroys 1,800 cannabis plants at a Bulka compound
A joint police and administration team uprooted and destroyed about 1,800 cannabis plants grown over roughly 300 square metres at a house compound in Bulka village, Garhwa, in an operation reported on 5 July 2026. The team said the uprooted plants weighed 118 kg and opened an investigation.
🇮🇳 Bulka village, Gazania Tola, Ramna police-station area, Garhwa district, Jharkhand, India
Police and administration officials carried out a joint action at a house compound in Gazania Tola,
Bulka village, in the Ramna police-station area of Garhwa district.[1]NewsDekho reported that
the team acted on a tip and found cannabis cultivation across about 300 square metres.[1]
The team uprooted and seized all the plants, which weighed 118 kilograms, and destroyed the crop at
the site.[1]The report put the count at about 1,800 cannabis plants and said the police began an
investigation into the cultivation and any wider network.[1]
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Police, administration officials and security personnel stand in the cannabis cultivation area at Bulka; the image includes the location coordinates.Photo details
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.
