467 cannabis plants destroyed at a house in Nabarangpur; grower arrested
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.
🇮🇳 Binayipur village, Timanpur panchayat, Raighar block, Nabarangpur district, Odisha · India
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Raighar police station, Nabarangpur district police
Police destroyed 467 cannabis plants grown illegally at Binayipur village in
Timanpur panchayat of Raighar block, Nabarangpur district, Odisha.[1]A
resident of Binayipur village, Tilachand Majhi, was growing the cannabis in the
compound of his own house.[1]
Police arrested Majhi and seized the equipment he used to grow the plants.[1]Sub-divisional police officer Shubhendu Sabar gave the account at a press
conference on Monday.[1]Raighar police station, acting on intelligence about
illegal cultivation, carried out the operation at village Binayapur.[2]
A case numbered 293/2026 was registered under the NDPS Act and police said the
investigation was under way.[2]
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Nabarangpur Police, Odisha (X)x.comNABARANGPUR POLICE | ANTI-DRUG DRIVE Raighar PS destroyed 467 illegal cannabis plants and apprehended 1 accused at Village Binayapur
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the raid; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and the day of the sub-divisional police officer's press conference, and is used as the incident date.
The Nabarangpur police account on X was posted on 7 November 2026, two days before the press conference, and gives no operation date of its own.
The village name appears as బినాయిపూర్ in the Telugu report and as Binayapur in the police post; the two appear to be the same village but the spelling is not settled.
No weight, area, value or court outcome was reported for the plants destroyed.
Only the Telugu outlet report and the police's own social media posts were found; no second independent news account of the raid was located.
The page includes a separate item on 30,000 plants destroyed in Koraput district, a different event covered by another report.
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.
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.
West Bengal police arrested 378 people in 212 NDPS cases and destroyed illegal ganja cultivation on 300 bighas, an estimated 10,000 kg, in an eight-day drive from 31 October to 7 November 2026. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said officers seized drugs worth about Rs 64 crore, a total covering other drugs too, and attached property worth Rs 1 crore.
