NCB and Mandi police destroy 20 acres of cannabis, book eight growers
The Narcotics Control Bureau and Mandi police destroyed illicitly cultivated cannabis on 20 acres across remote parts of Mandi district between 26 and 30 October 2003 in the closing leg of Mission Malana-II. Eight people were booked for growing cannabis on private land under Section 20 of the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Gadgusain, Didar, Jhamaj, Bagrath and Shillibaghi areas, Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh · India
The anti-narcotics task force of the Narcotics Control Bureau’s Chandigarh unit and the
Mandi police destroyed illicitly cultivated cannabis on 20 acres (about 8.1 hectares) in
Gadgusain, Didar, Jhamaj, Bagrath, Shillibaghi and adjoining remote areas between 26 and
30 October 2003, in the last leg of Mission Malana-II.[1]Ten NCB officials and ten
Mandi police officials, assisted by 30 labourers, carried out the operation in the area
adjoining the Banjar sub-division of Kullu district.[1]
NCB Superintendent O.P. Sharma and the Mandi district police chief told PTI that the teams
booked eight people for cultivating cannabis on private land under Section 20 of the
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.[1]
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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.
