One held as SOG seizes 558 cannabis plants worth Rs 1.13 crore in Lakhiya, Poshina
Gujarat's Special Operation Group arrested a 38-year-old man and seized 558 green cannabis plants weighing 226.237 kg from land in front of his house in Lakhiya village, Poshina taluka. Police valued the haul at about Rs 1.13 crore and registered a case under the NDPS Act after confirming the plantation by drone.
🇮🇳 Lakhiya village, Poshina taluka, Sabarkantha district, Gujarat · India
Sabarkantha police arrested a 38-year-old man from Lakhiya village after a drone
check confirmed he was growing cannabis on land in front of his house.[1]The
Special Operation Group (SOG), Gujarat’s anti-narcotics unit, seized 558 green
cannabis plants weighing 226.237 kilograms.[1]Police put the market value of
the seized green cannabis at about Rs 1.13 crore.[1]The raid followed a
tip-off while the SOG team was patrolling the Poshina area under SOG PI D.C.
Parmar and PSI P.M. Zala.[1]Drone surveillance was used to trace the
plantation and confirm the exact location before officers moved in.[1]The
raid was carried out in the presence of government-appointed panch witnesses.[1]A case was registered against the accused at Poshina Police Station under
the NDPS Act and further legal proceedings were initiated.[1]
The report also describes two separate December cannabis cases, one in Ranpur,
Botad and one in Sayla, Surendranagar, which are not covered here.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Plants destroyed
558
Cannabis
226.237 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 11,300,000
Sources
Bhaskar Englishbhaskarenglish.inGujarat police bust massive cannabis farming worth crores: SOG seizes 558 green plants worth Rs 1.13 crore using drone surveillance in Sabarkantha village
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The article gives no separate date for the raid or the arrest; 10 December 2025 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No court outcome, plea or bail decision was reported for the arrested man.
The Rs 1.13 crore valuation is a police estimate of the green plants and no independent valuation was published.
Only one accessible source reporting this event was found after searching in English and Gujarati.
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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.
