Police burn 2,000 cannabis plants near Kalimela, arrest grower
Kalimela police cut down and burnt more than 2,000 cannabis plants growing on two acres of forest land near Nagulur village in Malkangiri. A 30-year-old villager was arrested and produced in court.
🇮🇳 Nagulur village, Kalimela, Malkangiri · India
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 2,000
- Hectares
- 0.8
Acting on information about illegal cultivation, a team led by Kalimela police station officer-in-charge Prabhudatta Biswal raided forest land near Nagulur village under Papu lur panchayat in Malkangiri district, where more than 2,000 cannabis plants were growing on about two acres.[1] The team cut the plants down and burnt them.[1]
Police arrested 30-year-old Kateya Nainu, a Nagulur resident, and produced him in court on Sunday.[1] Officers opened a further investigation to find others behind the cultivation, including whoever supplied the seeds and fertilisers or funded it.[1]
Photos and video
- Police with uprooted cannabis plants at the forest plot near Nagulur Photos: OrissaPOST
Sources
- 2,000 cannabis plants destroyed; one held. OrissaPOST, 26 October 2026.