Salem City police destroyed 298 kg of ganja seized in 53 cases at the medical waste incineration plant at Konamerivalavu near Edappadi. Deputy Commissioner Geetha burned the stock, with no arrests or court outcomes reported in this disposal.
🇮🇳 medical waste incineration factory at Konamerivalavu near Edappadi, Salem, Tamil Nadu · India
Salem City police sent ganja packets seized in various police-station cases for destruction at the medical waste incineration factory at Konamerivalavu near Edappadi.[1] The destruction site is the medical waste incineration factory at Konamerivalavu near Edappadi.[1]
The quantity destroyed was 298 kg of ganja seized in 53 cases.[1] Deputy Commissioner Geetha put the ganja into fire and destroyed it.[1] The destroyed substance was described as ganja.[1]
Staff at Kannur Central Jail found a bottle suspected to contain hashish oil concealed in a prisoner’s underwear and sent it for scientific testing. A separate search recovered a mobile phone with SIM card, battery and charger, the fourth such phone seizure in the jail this month.
Nepanagar police seized 96 cannabis plants weighing 49.74 kg from a field in Mandwa village, Burhanpur, where they were grown among cotton and tuvar crops. The field owner fled before police arrived and is wanted under the NDPS Act, with the seizure valued at about 100,000 rupees.
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