10 tonnes of cannabis destroyed across 5 hectares in Meghalaya
A joint police, forest, excise and anti-narcotics team uprooted about 10 tonnes of illegally grown cannabis spread over five hectares at Laitlulong village in Sohiong, East Khasi Hills, on 21 October 2025.
🇮🇳 Laitlulong village, Sohiong, East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya · India
A multi-force team destroyed about 10 tonnes of illegally cultivated cannabis spread across five hectares at Laitlulong village in the Sohiong area of East Khasi Hills district.[1][2]The joint operation brought together the district police, the Forest Department, the Excise Department and the state Anti-Narcotics Task Force, who systematically uprooted cannabis from the whole area.[1][2]
Police sources said the five-hectare plantation belonged to several households and stressed that the cultivation was illegal.[2]No arrests were reported.[1][2]
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Police in Udaipur district uprooted and seized 779.79 kg of green ganja plants grown illegally in the hills at Khara Kupiya, Mandwa. Three NDPS cases were registered at Mandwa police station against three residents and investigation began.
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.
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.
