Cannabis destroyed on 46 bigha in Makwanpur's Raksirang and Kailash
Police destroyed cannabis planted on 46 bigha and 16 katta of land in Raksirang and Kailash rural municipalities of Makwanpur district, along with an opium plantation, and said the clearing took four consecutive days. Three police teams took part, and locals said the annual campaign had not stopped cultivation.
🇳🇵 Raksirang and Kailash rural municipalities, Makwanpur District · Nepal
Area
31.7 ha
Agencies
Narcotics Control Bureau, District Police Office Makwanpur +1
Police destroyed illegal cannabis cultivation on 46 bigha and 16 katta of land
in Raksirang and Kailash rural municipalities of Makwanpur district.[1]The
Makwanpur district police office said officers also destroyed an opium
plantation on three bigha and five katta there.[1]
Joint police teams destroyed the marijuana and opium over four consecutive days.[1]Eighty-three officers from the Narcotics Control Bureau at police
headquarters in Koteshwar took part, with 38 from the Makwanpur district police
office and 36 from the Manhari office.[1]
Locals said cultivation has not stopped even though police clear plantations
every year.[1]Superintendent of Police Vamdev Gautam, who heads the Makwanpur
district police office, said the cultivation that has gone on in the district
for many years would be destroyed.[1]Police said the area’s difficult terrain
and lack of transport keep the administration from reaching it, which lets
cultivation continue there.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Area
31.7 ha
Agencies
Narcotics Control Bureau, Police Headquarters, Koteshwar; District Police Office Makwanpur; District Police Office Manhari
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