11 arrested as police seize 750 kg ganja in Kandhamal
Kandhamal police arrested 11 people and seized 750 kilograms of cannabis, valued at about Rs 75 lakh, in a raid in the Gochhapada police station area. The same operation destroyed cannabis crops on nearly 25 acres of forest land in the Salaguda and Katringia panchayats.
🇮🇳 Salaguda and Katringia panchayats, Gochhapada police station area, Kandhamal, Odisha · India
Kandhamal police arrested 11 people and seized750 kilograms of ganja in a raid
in the Gochhapada police station area of Odisha’s Kandhamal district.[1]Police valued the seized cannabis at about Rs 75 lakh.[1]Officers found the
ganja packed in 25 plastic sacks.[1]
The raid followed intelligence gathered on 3 November about cannabis grown and
stored near forest streams in Salaguda and Katringia panchayats.[1]A joint
enforcement team led by DSP Sunil Arun Kumar Nayak, SDPO Subhrajit Biswal and
Inspector Subhrajit Samantaray carried out the raid in the presence of an
executive magistrate.[1]Preliminary investigations indicated the load was to
be sent to Madhya Pradesh by rail through neighbouring Boudh district.[1]
Using drone surveillance, the team also found and destroyed cannabis crops
across nearly 25 acres of forest land.[1]A case was registered at Gochhapada
police station under the NDPS Act, 1985.[1]
Photos and video
Page picture captioned for the Gochhapada ganja seizure; no photo credit was published.Photo details
Only one outlet, Pragativadi, was found reporting this raid, and the article does not name the police source of its figures.
The article gives no exact date for the raid; it says the intelligence was gathered on 3 November and was published on 5 November, so the raid date is inferred and recorded as 4 November.
The 11 arrested people were not named, and the article does not say how many were charged or whether they were produced in court.
No count of plants destroyed and no separate value for the destroyed crops were published, only the area of nearly 25 acres.
The page photo is captioned only for the Gochhapada seizure and carries no credit, so what it shows and who took it are not established.
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