1,700 bighas of cannabis destroyed in nine-day Kullu drive; 20 held in Tosh raid
A Narcotics Control Bureau and Kullu police team raided Tosh village in the Manikaran valley on 6 October 2004, catching 20 Nepali workers and booking five villagers, and destroyed over 500 bighas of cannabis there. Over nine days the joint team reported destroying more than 1,700 bighas, about 138 hectares, across the Malana, Magic, Waraichin, Belang and Tosh areas.
🇮🇳 Tosh village and Manikaran valley, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Narcotics Control Bureau superintendent O.P. Sharma and Kullu deputy superintendent Kushal
Sharma led an NCB and Kullu police team into Tosh village in the early hours of 6 October
2004, acting on a tip-off with permission from the NCB zonal director in Chandigarh.[1]They caught 20 Nepalis in the cannabis-growing pasture and booked five villagers who had
grown cannabis on private land; Tosh, 90 km from the divisional headquarters at Mandi, had
emerged as a charas hub drawing Nepali, Jharkhand and Orissa labourers.[1]
Nine-day drive
The team destroyed over 500 bighas of cannabis in Tosh and surrounding forests and planned
to move on to Malander and Rasol in the Parvati valley.[1]Over the previous nine days
the joint team reported destroying more than 1,700 bighas, about 138 hectares, across the
Malana, Magic, Waraichin, Belang and Tosh areas of the Manikaran valley.[1]A Himachal
Pradesh High Court judgment confirms a special destruction drive was under way in Kullu
district on 6 October 2004, when a police party reached Tosh Kutla at 8 am and uprooted
cannabis on forest and private land.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The hectare figure is converted from bighas at about 0.081 hectares per bigha, the Himachal Pradesh revenue measure; the bigha varies between Indian states.
The Tribune printed a photograph of policemen destroying charas in Mandi that could not be verified as showing this raid, so it is not listed as media.
The reports give no start date for the nine-day drive and no later court outcomes for those caught.
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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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