Joint teams destroy cannabis on 25 hectares at Tosh and Malana
Joint teams of the NCB, ITBP, task force, police and forest staff destroyed illegal cannabis across about 25 hectares at Tosh and Malana in the Kasol forest range of Kullu around 27 September 2026, including about 1.2 million plants on 10 hectares at Tosh.
🇮🇳 Tosh and Malana, Kasol forest range, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh · India
Joint teams of the security forces and government departments destroyed large areas of illegally grown cannabis at Tosh and Malana in the Kasol forest range of Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh.[1]Range officer Jog Raj Sharma of Kasol confirmed the action and said the eradication campaign would continue.[1]
At Tosh, a special drive cleared about 10 hectares of forest land of illegally grown cannabis, uprooting close to 1.2 million plants.[1]The operation was carried out jointly by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the state task force (STF).[1]
At Malana, teams ran an intensive drive over about 15 hectares of cannabis cultivation, completed jointly by the NCB, local police and forest staff.[1]The NCB separately said its joint drive with the ITBP, Himachal Pradesh Police and the State Forest Department had destroyed more than 61 acres of illegal cannabis in remote high-altitude areas of Kullu, with every stage geo-tagged and documented.[2]
The NCB said legal action would follow against those responsible for the illegal cultivation, and that the drive forms part of its Vision Document on Narcotics Control for 2026-29 aimed at stopping drugs at their source.[2]
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Workers in a cannabis field being cleared in the Kullu hillsPhoto details
No arrests, charges or court outcomes were reported for the growers of these fields.
A later police statement totals nearly 1,300 hectares for the September to October Kullu drive covering the same Kasol areas, and the sources do not say whether these 25 hectares are part of that total.
The NCB put the same drive above 61 acres (about 24.7 hectares), slightly below the 25 hectares in the Hindi account.
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