A joint team of the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force cut down about 18,500 cannabis plants on roughly three and a half bighas of land in the Chure area near Pipal Damar in Ishworpur Municipality-12, Sarlahi.[1] The team came from the Area Police Office at Kesharganj and Armed Police Force Nepal No. 10 Battalion.[1] The Sarlahi District Police Office announced the destruction in a press release.[2] The team reached the remote Chure slopes by way of the Baanke Khola, near the Sindhuli district border.[2]

Deputy Superintendent of Police Saroj Rai, the District Police Office information officer, said the operation followed information that cannabis was being grown commercially in the area.[1] The plants were close to harvest and were uprooted and destroyed.[1] Officers took a whole bigha, a Nepali land measure of roughly 0.68 hectares, as about 0.16 hectares.[2] The operation was completed on Friday, 26 Mangsir 2082, which fell on 12 December 2025.[3]

Few other crops grow well in the Chure belt, and Gorkhapatra reported that residents there have long grown cannabis for a substantial income even though Nepali law treats the crop as illegal.[2] Ratopati reported that police said they would tighten surveillance and keep acting against other hidden plantations and criminal activity in the area.[3] Kamalamai Khabar, a Sindhuli-based outlet, reported an allegation by unnamed local people that police collect commissions over the eradication drives and are complicit in the trade.[4] That outlet said the Friday destruction at Pipal Damar and other places cleared about four bighas, a slightly larger figure than the police count.[4]