Farmer booked after police uproot 13.43 kg of ganja in Jamner field
Jamner police raided a field in Maladbadi shivar, Jalgaon district, on 5 November 2026 and uprooted about 13 kg of ready ganja plants worth ₹3.36 lakh. The farmer police accuse of growing them fled and has been booked under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Maladbadi shivar, Jamner taluka, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra · India
Jamner police raided a field in Maladbadi shivar, in Jalgaon district’s Jamner
taluka, at about 12.15 pm on Thursday, 5 November 2026, after a tip-off that
cannabis was being grown there.[1][2]Police said the field held fresh, green
ganja plants 7 to 8 feet tall carrying leaves, flowers and buds.[1]
Officers uprooted the plants and seized them; the material weighed 13 kg430 g.[1][3][4][2]Police valued the seized plants at ₹3,35,750 using a market rate of ₹25,000
per kg.[1][3][4][2]The suspect, farmer Anil Dagdu Patil of Maladbadi, fled the field
when he saw the police party arriving.[1][3][4][5]
He is accused of growing the cannabis illegally on his own land.[6][2]Jamner
police registered crime No. 552/2026 against him under sections 8(b) and 20(a)
of the NDPS Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, on the
complaint of constable Rajesh Vilas Lahase.[1][3][4]Inspector Nivrutti Borhade and
sub-inspector Krishna Solunke visited and inspected the site, and Solunke is
continuing the investigation under Borhade’s guidance.[1]The cannabis was
intercropped among crops in the field, Jalgaon Live News reported.[6][3]Jalgaon
Live reported that police were searching for the suspect who fled, and that he
had not been caught in the raid.[6]
The plants were green and wet when officers seized them, Breaking Maharashtra reported.[5]The raid party named by police included sub-inspectors Ashok Kokate and Krishna Solunke, constables including Sahil Tadvi, Umesh Chaudhari, Raju Tayde and Chandrakant Patil, and driver Gyaneshwar Badgujar, eSakal reported.[2]The raid was carried out under the guidance of Jalgaon superintendent of police Shrikant Dhivare and additional superintendents Sandeep Gavit and Ashok Nakhate, Breaking Maharashtra reported.[5]
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Only two Marathi outlets were found, and both reproduce the same police account of the crop and valuation.
Neither report gives the area of the cannabis crop or a count of plants; the only quantity is the weight of the uprooted plants.
No arrest was reported: the accused is named as a suspect who fled, so no arrested figure is recorded.
Neither report says what happened next to the seized plants or whether the accused was later detained.
The reports do not say whether the crop was hidden among other crops; Jalgaon Live News says it was grown behind crops.
No figure for the number of plants uprooted or the area of the cannabis plot was published in this account either.
The report gives no separate date for the raid; its dateline is 6 November 2026 and the raid date of 5 November comes from other outlets.
The Times of India account does not name the village, so it cannot confirm that the farm was at Maladbadi shivar.
The Times of India page gives only the publication date, 7 November 2026, and no raid date; the 5 November date comes from the Marathi reports already cited.
The eSakal page places the article under a Nashik section and datelines the report from Jalgaon; the raid itself was in Maladabhadi, Jamner taluka, Jalgaon district.
Breaking Maharashtra's headline says a bulldozer was used against the cannabis crop, but its text describes only uprooting and seizure, so no destruction by machine is recorded.
Breaking Maharashtra gives 2.15 pm as the time of the raid, while the eSakal account says about 12.15 pm.
The eSakal page gives no area for the cannabis plot and no count of the plants uprooted.
No arrest is reported in either account; the accused is described as having fled.
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Arrested 18Plants destroyed 4,194Cannabis 2.7706 t
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Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
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