Khargone police registered 17 cases under the NDPS Act, India’s narcotics law, and arrested 18 accused during a 15-day state-level anti-narcotics campaign.[1] The campaign ran from 27 October to 10 November 2026 under Superintendent of Police Ravindra Verma.[1]

Acting on reports of illegal ganja cultivation across the district, officers seized 4,194 cannabis plants weighing 2,750 kilograms, which police valued at Rs 4,12,50,000.[1] Separate actions against ganja traffickers and sellers produced 20.600 kilograms of dried ganja from the accused, which police valued at about Rs 5,15,125.[1]

Teams used drones to search suspected fields and the surrounding area.[1] In several places officers had to cross rivers, hills and difficult tracks to reach the ganja fields.[1] Cases were registered under the NDPS Act against people involved in the illegal cultivation.[1] Police also arrested six people who were absconding in older NDPS Act cases or against whom warrants were pending.[1] A report was submitted to act against two accused under the PIT NDPS Act, the preventive detention law.[1]

The campaign was overseen by Indore zone DIG Anurag and Nimar range IG Simala Prasad, with additional superintendents of police Bittu Sahgal and Shakuntala Ruhal guiding teams from every sub-division and police station in the district.[1] Police said action against those involved in illegal cultivation, trafficking and sale of narcotics would continue.[1]