Israeli held for 1,080-plant marijuana farm on Jaipur terrace
Jaipur police arrested Israeli national Alon Molay for allegedly growing marijuana on the 15th-floor terrace of a Bhankrota apartment. Officers seized 1,080 plants grown over 2,750 sq ft with tubelight heat at night after a lockdown tip about a foreign national.
🇮🇳 Residential apartment terrace near Mahapura Mod, Bhankrota, Jaipur · India
Jaipur police arrested an Israeli national on Thursday for allegedly farming
marijuana on the 15th-floor terrace of a residential apartment at Bhankrota.[1]The arrested man was identified as Alon Molay, a native of Israel.[1]Officers raided an apartment near Mahapura Mode in the Bhankrota police station
area to make the arrest.[1]
Police said the accused was sowing good-quality marijuana over an area of 2,750
square feet on the terrace.[1]Police described the grow as organic farming of
marijuana.[1]Police seized 1,080 marijuana plants from the terrace of the
apartment.[1]The terrace grow used an automatic system in which the plants
received heat from tubelights even during the night.[1]
Various teams of the Jaipur police commissionerate had been constituted by the
commissioner of police for the crackdown against narcotics in the city.[1]During the lockdown, police received specific input that a man appearing to be a
foreign national was roaming in the locality and deployed police in plain
clothes to check the activities of the suspect.[1]
Photos and video
The Israeli national reported as arrested for farming marijuana, as published with the report on the Jaipur terrace grow.Photo details
The incident date is inferred as Thursday 26 March 2020 because the article published on 27 March 2020 says the arrest happened on Thursday; no separate raid date is given.
The article says nearly 1,080 plants in the police quote and 1,080 plants elsewhere; the report uses 1,080 as stated.
No cannabis weight, plant disposal, valuation, charge or court outcome was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English.
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