More than 11,000 cannabis plants seized from five fields in Barwani
More than 400 police in 12 drone-assisted teams searched 19 villages under Varla police station in Sendhwa and seized over 11,000 cannabis plants weighing more than 23 quintals from five fields. Police put the haul's value above Rs 1 crore and recorded nine cases with over 34 quintals over two days.
🇮🇳 Varla, Sendhwa, Barwani, Madhya Pradesh · India
Police seized more than 11,000 illegally cultivated cannabis plants in a massive operation across hilly and forested areas under Varla police station in Sendhwa subdivision.[1]
Under Operation Green Strike, 12 teams of more than 400 police personnel searched 19 villages simultaneously on Saturday with the help of drones, finding cannabis growing in five fields.[1]Teams trekked through forests and hills while drones monitored suspicious fields.[1]
The seized plants weighed more than 23 quintals and were estimated to be worth over Rs 1 crore, SDOP Varla Ajay Waghmare said on Sunday.[1]Including Saturday’s operation, police registered nine cases and seized more than 34 quintals of illegally cultivated cannabis over the two days.[1]
Barwani Police’s separate 10 September account said teams found four fields in Borpadava forest and seized 6,185 plants weighing 10 quintals71 kilograms (1,071 kg), with an estimated value of Rs 50–52 lakh; four NDPS Act cases were registered.[2][3]
Police said about 75 personnel used a covered pickup and a drone to search the forest, while people at the fields fled when they saw the police vehicles.[2][3]This 10 September phase is the earlier action referred to in the Free Press Journal report; its more-than-11,000-plant and more-than-23-quintal figures describe the subsequent Saturday operation.[1][2][3]
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Police officers with sacks of seized cannabis plants in a field, in the photograph the Free Press Journal published with the report.Photo details
Source: Free Press Journal · archived copyBarla police officers stand behind sacks of seized cannabis plants outside the police station in a Barwani Police photograph of the 10 September operation.Photo details
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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.
