Farmer booked as police seize seven ganja plants from a Jintur turmeric field
Jintur police in Parbhani district, Maharashtra, seized seven cannabis plants weighing 14.15 kg from a turmeric field in Kehal shivar and booked a 35-year-old farmer from the village. Police valued the plants at ₹7,07,500, in one of several cannabis-in-field cases reported in the district within a month.
🇮🇳 Kehal shivar, Jintur taluka, Parbhani district, Maharashtra · India
Jintur police seized seven cannabis plants that a 35-year-old farmer from Kehal
had grown without a licence among the turmeric in his field in Kehal shivar,
Parbhani district.[1]The seven plants weighed 14 kg150 g, and police put
their market value at ₹7,07,500.[1]The raid was carried out on the field
bearing survey number 98/1, by sub-inspector Ingole and constables Nasib Pathan,
Chaudhari and Kamble.[1]Jintur police station registered a case over the
cultivation.[1]The raid was reported in a daily published on 6 November 2026,
which dated the action to Thursday, 5 November.[1]
The case is one of several cannabis-in-field cases reported in Parbhani district
in the previous month, in the Gangakhed, Jintur and Purna talukas.[1]Among
them, police found 153 kg of cannabis worth ₹73 lakh in Undegaon shivar in the
Daithana police station area, seized plants worth ₹1.21 crore at Mohkhed in
Jintur taluka, seized plants worth ₹3.88 lakh from a farmer’s field at Avai in
Purna taluka, and seized plants worth ₹8.25 lakh from a turmeric crop at Kanha
shivar in Jintur taluka.[1]The district cases show cannabis being planted
among turmeric, cotton and sugarcane crops.[1]
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Page photo published with the report under a Marathi caption saying police acted against a man who grew cannabis in a turmeric crop in Jintur taluka; it carries no credit.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
1
Plants destroyed
7
Cannabis
14.15 kg
Sites
1
Value (official estimate)
INR 707,500
Agency
Jintur Police Station
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (14.15 kg, 7 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Charged
Region
Maharashtra
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
Only one accessible source describes this raid; a second outlet for the same Kehal action could not be found in Marathi or English searches.
The report says the action took place on Thursday but gives no date; since it was published on Friday, 6 November 2026, the action is dated 5 November 2026.
The owner is identified but the report does not say whether he was detained, summoned or only booked, and gives no charge sections or arrest figure.
No area of the cannabis crop was published; the only quantities are the plant count and their combined weight.
The report does not say what happened to the seized plants, or whether they were uprooted and destroyed.
The other Parbhani district seizures the report cites within the same month are separate events and are not included in this report's figures.
The page photo is captioned with the raid but does not show which field or plants it depicts, and carries no credit.
Chopda Rural police raided forest land at Khanayapadaw on 11 November 2026 and seized 1,870 kg of ganja-like plants police valued at Rs 4.67 crore. The accused cultivator fled and no arrest was reported; samples were kept for chemical testing.
Kalyanpura police in Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh, raided a field where cannabis was grown among a pigeon pea crop in Kheda village and seized 105 green plants weighing 82.55 kg. Police arrested the farm's owner and valued the plants at 784,000 rupees, though the case details sit behind the outlet's app login.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 105Cannabis 82.55 kg
Udaynagar police uprooted more than 30 cannabis plants weighing 65 kg from a pigeon pea field at Kavtiapani village in Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, after a drone survey. Police valued the plants at about Rs 2 lakh and registered an NDPS Act case against the field's owner, Poonam Mujalde.
Gattu police searched a field at the edge of Boyalagudem village in Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana, on Saturday 7 November 2026 and seized four cannabis plants said to be growing there. The plants were in a field belonging to Govindu, a farmer from Lingapuram village, who was taken into custody, questioned and named in a case, Gattu sub-inspector Kalyan Kumar said.
