Assam Rifles with Tripura Police and the Forest Service destroyed about 90,000 cannabis plants across some 110 acres in the Kathalia area under Jatrapur police station on 16 January 2025, a crop valued at Rs 3.5 crore.
🇮🇳 Kathalia, Jatrapur, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
Assam Rifles, with Tripura Police and the Tripura Forest Service, destroyed about 90,000 cannabis plants spread across some 110 acres (44.5 hectares) in the Kathalia area under Jatrapur police station in the early hours of Thursday 16 January 2025.[1][2]
Officials valued the destroyed crop at about Rs 3.5 crore.[1][2] The accounts report no arrests and no seizure of processed ganja.[1][2]
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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.
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