Rajasthan team destroys 5,860 cannabis plants near Delwara
Rajasthan's Anti-Narcotics Task Force and the Narcotics Control Bureau found cannabis concealed among wheat near Delwara and destroyed 5,860 plants during Operation Ganjajuli. Patrika reported that police arrested one man who was preparing packets for sale.
The Rajasthan Anti-Narcotics Task Force and the Jodhpur unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau found a cannabis plantation concealed among wheat on a six-bigha hillside near Delwara in Rajsamand district.[1][2]The teams destroyed 5,860 plants on site, with police putting the crop’s market value at about ₹10 crore.[1][2]
Patrika reported that officers arrested Nattulal Gameti while he was preparing small cannabis packets for sale, and that 19 landholders connected to the field were being sought.[1]ThePrint described the Delwara action as one part of a seven-location Rajasthan operation, so only the plants and arrest linked to this field are counted here.[2]
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Officers stand with a detained man and sacks during the Delwara cannabis operation.Photo details
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ThePrint (PTI Feed)theprint.inCannabis plantation unearthed, 85 kg of poppy husk seized in anti-narcotics crackdown across Rajasthan
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Patrika was published on 12 April and ThePrint on 11 April; the operation's separate calendar date is not explicit in Patrika, so 11 April follows ThePrint's dateline.
ThePrint gives both about 15 kg and 12.130 kg for processed cannabis across the wider seven-location operation; this report leaves that weight out.
Patrika says 19 landholders were being sought, but neither account reports a later charge or court outcome for them.
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.
