Farmer held after Gattu police seize four cannabis plants at Boyalagudem
Gattu police searched a field at the edge of Boyalagudem village in Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana, on Saturday 7 November 2026 and seized four cannabis plants said to be growing there. The plants were in a field belonging to Govindu, a farmer from Lingapuram village, who was taken into custody, questioned and named in a case, Gattu sub-inspector Kalyan Kumar said.
🇮🇳 Boyalagudem village, Gattu mandal, Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana · India
Gattu police searched a field at the edge of Boyalagudem village in Jogulamba
Gadwal district on Saturday and found four cannabis plants growing there.[1][2][3][4]The plants were in a field belonging to Govindu, a farmer from Lingapuram
village.[1][2][4]Police took the four plants into custody and registered a case
against the farmer.[1][2][3]
Gattu sub-inspector Kalyan Kumar said the farmer had been taken into custody and
was being questioned.[1][2][3][4]The sub-inspector warned that anyone committing such
offences in the mandal would face severe legal action.[1][2][3]
The farmer had grown the cannabis as an intercrop in a seed-cotton field on two acres to avoid suspicion, and police raided on reliable information.[4]
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No figure for the weight or value of the four plants or the area they covered was published.
The farmer's charge, arrest, custody status and any court step are not stated; the article says he was taken into custody and being questioned, so he is recorded as detained and no charges are recorded.
The report gives no date beyond Saturday; 7 November 2026 is the article's publication date and the preceding Saturday.
Only one account of this raid could be opened; no separate police statement or second outlet account was found.
The page's lead image carries no descriptive caption or credit, so whether it shows the field or the plants is not established.
An earlier, separate case at the same village is recorded: in September 2025 Gadwal police seized nine cannabis plants from a leased field at Boyalagudem and arrested a farmer from Thottinonidoddi; it is a different event and not covered by this report.
HMTV gives no date beyond Saturday and is published on 7 November 2026, so it does not independently fix the raid date.
No charge section, plant weight or field area is given in this second account either.
Disha Daily names the farmer only as Govindu of Lingapuram village and gives no age or address beyond that.
Disha Daily gives no weight, value or area for the four plants and no charge section named against the farmer.
Disha Daily gives no day beyond Saturday; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and the preceding Saturday.
The picture on the Disha Daily page carries only the headline as its caption and no credit, so it cannot be confirmed to show the field or the plants; the report's existing media entries are unchanged.
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Kalyanpura police in Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh, raided a field where cannabis was grown among a pigeon pea crop in Kheda village and seized 105 green plants weighing 82.55 kg. Police arrested the farm's owner and valued the plants at 784,000 rupees, though the case details sit behind the outlet's app login.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
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A team led by Sadar circle officer Rahul Shankar raided a kirana shop in Boksa village, Buxar district, Bihar, on a tip-off and recovered 1 kilogram of ganja. The administration seized the drug and began legal proceedings against the shop's owner, Amarnath Prasad; no arrest was reported.
