Acting on an informer’s tip, Cantt police raided a field in Barkheda Dhekni village in Guna district on Wednesday night.[1] Cantt police said an informer had told them that Pahalwan Singh Yadav had planted cannabis plants among another crop in his own field.[2] Officers found a man at the house built on the field, who identified himself as 39-year-old Pahalwan Singh Yadav of Barkheda Dhekni.[2] Police arrested Yadav and registered case number 994/26 against him at Cantt police station under sections 8/20 of the NDPS Act, with the case taken up for investigation.[2]

A search of the field found a large number of green cannabis plants growing, four cut dried plants lying at the spot, and dried cannabis in a plastic polythene bag.[2] Officers had the plants uprooted, counted and weighed: 295 green plants and four dried plants, 299 in all, weighing 131.440 kg in total.[2] The dried cannabis in the polythene bag weighed 7.040 kg, and police put the estimated value of the seized cannabis at about 3 lakh rupees.[2] All the seized plants and the dried cannabis were formally confiscated.[2]

The cannabis had been grown intercropped, with 1.31 quintals of cannabis plants raised amid another standing crop in the field.[1] The report describes the accused as a farmer arrested with the 299 plants grown between his other crop.[1]