42 acres of cannabis burned in Kandhamal under Operation Green
Under Operation Green Mission, police, excise and revenue teams in Kandhamal district, Odisha, cut down and burned illegal cannabis across about 42 acres near Kalibira, Dami and Ratang villages in Phiringia on a drive reported on 5 January 2026. Authorities valued the crop at nearly Rs 40 lakh; no arrests were reported.
🇮🇳 Kalibira, Dami and Ratang, Phiringia, Kandhamal · India
Odisha TV and OdishaBytes reported that a joint team of police, excise and revenue officials
destroyed illegal cannabis cultivation worth nearly Rs 40 lakh in the Phiringia area of
Kandhamal district under Operation Green Mission.[1][2]
Both outlets said the raid targeted forest land near Kalibira, Dami and Ratang villages under
Ratang panchayat, where officers found plants spread over about 42 acres (roughly 17 hectares)
of difficult terrain.[1][2]The teams cut the crop down and burned it on the spot.[1][2]
Police told the outlets the plantation pointed to organised cultivation and that similar drives
would continue, with legal action promised against those involved.[1][2]Neither report named
any arrests.[1][2]
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Police in Udaipur district uprooted and seized 779.79 kg of green ganja plants grown illegally in the hills at Khara Kupiya, Mandwa. Three NDPS cases were registered at Mandwa police station against three residents and investigation began.
Police destroyed 467 cannabis plants growing in a villager's house compound at Binayipur in Nabarangpur district, Odisha, and arrested him. The Nabarangpur police registered a case under the NDPS Act, and a sub-divisional police officer gave the account of the raid to reporters.
Sepahijala superintendent of police Bijoy Debbarma said joint police, Tripura State Rifles and BSF teams destroyed at least 1.5 crore ganja plants in Sonamura subdivision over the past year, causing an estimated Rs 1,000 crore loss to the illegal trade. He said the crackdown lay behind a 2 November attack on a BSF team at Ashabari, after which police have arrested 21 people.
Koraput district police and excise teams destroyed 30,000 cannabis plants in joint raids, 12,000 of them at Atal Guda in the Boipariguda block and 18,000 in the Nandapur block, the district superintendent of police said. Koraput police said the Nandapur destruction covered about nine acres of hilly land near Kasandi and Dabuguda.
