Sainkheda police arrested farmer Yuvraj Satpute, aged 40, who owned an ancestral family field in Birulbazaar where cannabis plants were found growing.[1] Police registered a case against Satpute under the NDPS Act after taking him into custody over the cultivation found on his own field.[1] The enforcement action was reported from the Multai area, with the field, the seizure and the arrest all linked to Birulbazaar and the local Sainkheda police.[1]

Officers seized 16 ganja plants, the local name for cannabis, from Satpute’s ancestral field during the Birulbazaar operation.[1] Police weighed all of the seized plants together and reported their combined total weight as 14.8 kilograms of ganja.[1] Police estimated the value of the seized cannabis at about 110,000 rupees, presented as the authorities’ own valuation of the plants.[1]

The case was recorded as an NDPS Act cultivation matter, with the 16 plants and the 14.8 kg forming the whole reported seizure in this action.[1]