45,000 cannabis plants cut on six acres at Barkathal
Mohanpur police, with the CRPF and Tripura State Rifles, cut down about 45,000 cannabis plants on 16 plots covering about six acres at Barkathal under Sidhai police station on 28 October 2026. No one was reported arrested. Police said the inquiry into who grew the crop was still open.
🇮🇳 Barkathal, Sidhai, Mohanpur, West Tripura · India
- Plants destroyed
- 45,000
- Hectares
- 2.4
Mohanpur sub-divisional police, with central armed police, cut down about 45,000 cannabis plants on Wednesday 28 October 2026 at Barkathal, under Sidhai police station in Mohanpur subdivision, West Tripura.[1][2] Police said the crop stood on 16 plots covering about six acres (about 2.4 hectares).[1][2]
The drive was led by Vinod Kumar, assistant commandant of the 124th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force, and Mohanpur sub-divisional police officer Ashish Dasgupta.[1][2] Officers from Sidhai police station, Sundartilla police outpost and the Tripura State Rifles took part.[1][2]
Dasgupta told reporters that the campaign would continue and that police were still identifying who had grown the plants.[1][2] Neither report names an arrest.[1][2]
Sources
- Huge numbers of Ganja plants destroyed in anti-drug drive in Mohanpur. Northeast Herald, 28 October 2026.
- মোহনপুরে নেশাবিরোধী অভিযান, ৬ একর জমির ১৬টি প্লটে ৪৫ হাজার গাঁজা গাছ ধ্বংস. Jagaran Tripura, 28 October 2026. In Bangla.
Open questions the AI reported
- No one was named or reported arrested.
- The map marks Mohanpur. Barkathal was not given a separate point in the geographic sources checked.
- Jagaran Tripura's page image is an older file and is not listed as a photograph of this drive.
- A September destruction of about 80,000 plants at Urabari, also under Sidhai, is a different event.
