Father and son held as 1,245 ganja plants seized in Asifabad field
Asifabad police arrested Ambure Pundalik and his son Ramesh for growing 1,245 ganja plants as an intercrop in a cotton field near Jainoor, valued by police at Rs 1.50 crore. The crop was traced after Pundalik was caught with 11 grams of ganja at a vehicle check the previous night.
🇮🇳 Nagolkonda village, near Jainoor, Kumuram Bheem Asifabad, Telangana · India
Asifabad police arrested a man and his son for cultivating ganja as an intercrop in a cotton field, seizing 1,245 plants that police valued at Rs 1.50 crore.[1][2]
Pundalik was first detained with 11 grams of ganja during a vehicle check in Jainoor on Sunday night.[1]Under questioning he confessed to growing the crop with his son’s help, and police raided the farm and seized the plants before arresting his son Ramesh.[1]A second account says Jainoor SI G. Ravikumar received the tip on 13 September, searched Pundalik on Patnapur Main Road, found the 11 grams hidden in his towel, and inspected the field with an agricultural extension officer and five witnesses before arresting both men on 14 September.[2]
SP Nitika Pant said counting the plants took more than ten hours and that policemen had to carry them on their heads because of the valley terrain.[1]She said the accused had grown the crop for quite a long time on the ten-acre cotton field and that police were working to identify the masterminds behind the cultivation.[1][2]
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Police officers pose with piles of seized ganja plants, in the photograph Telangana Today published with the report.Photo details
Telangana Today places the field at Nagolkonda village in Nanoor mandal and the arrests at the Jainoor mandal centre; the map marks Jainoor, with no separate point for Nagolkonda.
Police said they were still identifying the masterminds and tracing the source of the seeds and the marketing channels.
Chopda Rural police raided forest land at Khanayapadaw on 11 November 2026 and seized 1,870 kg of ganja-like plants police valued at Rs 4.67 crore. The accused cultivator fled and no arrest was reported; samples were kept for chemical testing.
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.
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Udaynagar police uprooted more than 30 cannabis plants weighing 65 kg from a pigeon pea field at Kavtiapani village in Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, after a drone survey. Police valued the plants at about Rs 2 lakh and registered an NDPS Act case against the field's owner, Poonam Mujalde.
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.
