30,000 cannabis plants destroyed in Koraput police and excise raids
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.
🇮🇳 Atal Guda, Boipariguda block, Koraput district, Odisha · India
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Koraput district police, Koraput district Excise Department
Joint raids by the Koraput district police and the district excise department
destroyed 30,000 ganja plants in Koraput district, according to Eenadu.[1]The
district superintendent of police said special teams led by district Excise
Superintendent Arun Kumar Padi carried out the raids and destroyed large
quantities of the crop.[1]
12,000 plants were destroyed at Atal Guda in the Boipariguda block.[1]18,000
plants were destroyed in the Nandapur block.[1]
Koraput police said the Nandapur police station raided hilly areas near Kasandi
and Dabuguda, found illegal cannabis cultivation on about nine acres of land and
uprooted and destroyed around 18,000 plants.[2]
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Photograph published with the Eenadu report on the destruction of 30,000 cannabis plants in Koraput district; the page gives no caption or credit.Photo details
Koraput Police (@SPkoraput) on Xx.comNandapur Police Station,Koraput police conducted a raid in the hilly areas near Kasandi. And dabuguda .During the operation, illegal cultivation of cannabis was detected over approximately 09 acres of land. Around 18000 cannabis plants were uprooted and destroyed.
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Eenadu gives no separate date for the raids; 7 November 2026 is the date of the police statement posted on Koraput Police's account, and 8 November is the article's publication date.
Only the Nandapur part has an acreage, about nine acres; no area was reported for the 12,000 plants at Atal Guda in the Boipariguda block.
No arrests, case numbers or first information reports were reported for either site.
No English-language report of the Boipariguda destruction was found; the place name appears only in the Telugu transliteration.
Eenadu reports the count as the district SP's account; the 30,000 figure is the police's, not an independently verified count.
The page photo carries no caption or credit, so whether it depicts either raided site is not established.
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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.
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