Hambegamuwa police arrested a 24-year-old resident on 19 September 2023 for running an illegal ganja farm of 3,000 mature plants and 25,000 seedlings on about half an acre. Officers destroyed all the plants and seedlings on site.
🇱🇰 Hambegamuwa, Monaragala District · Sri Lanka
On 19 September 2023, Hambegamuwa police arrested a 24-year-old resident of Hambegamuwa for running an illegal ganja farm on about half an acre.[1] The farm held 3,000 mature ganja trees and 25,000 seedlings.[1]
Officers destroyed all the confiscated plants and seedlings on site.[1] The suspect faces legal proceedings for the operation.[1]
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Officers of the Monaragala Police Narcotics Bureau raided a two-acre cannabis cultivation in the Maw Ara area of Hambegamuwa and arrested three suspects. All 36,710 plants, six to eight feet tall, were uprooted and burned on site, and the suspects were handed to Hambegamuwa Police.
Hambegamuwa police burned about 23,000 cannabis plants in a banana field of about one acre and about 17,000 more in an orange grove of about three-quarters of an acre at Rathbalawewa, and arrested two local residents. Police put the crop at about 10 million rupees. The suspects were to be produced at Wellawaya Magistrate's Court.
Sri Lanka's Coast Guard and the Police Special Task Force arrested one person and burned more than 50,000 locally cultivated cannabis saplings in the Yala Jungle area. The suspect was handed to Kataragama Police for further investigation.
Acting on army intelligence, Hambegamuwa police and soldiers raided a three-acre cannabis field inside the Udawalawe reserve on 11 April and seized about 155,000 plants worth Rs 4.5 million. The reports name no arrests.
