12 lakh cannabis plants destroyed in Sepahijala mega drive
Sepahijala district police with central forces destroyed about 12 lakh cannabis plants across 120 plots on 18 November 2025. The six-hour drive under SP Bijoy Debbarma covered forest areas under five police stations; police put the street value at Rs 50 crore.
🇮🇳 Sutarmura, Toktumadum, Chitta Rambari, Ukyamura, Tulamura Kamalnagar and Ghatigar, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
On Tuesday 18 November 2025, some 500 personnel of the district police, Tripura State Rifles,
CRPF, district administration and the Forest Department destroyed about 12 lakh semi-mature
cannabis plants across 120 plots in the remote forests of Sepahijala district.[1][2][3]The
six-hour drive ran from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM and followed specific intelligence gathered by
Tripura Police.[1][3]
The plots lay at Sutarmura, Toktumadum, Chitta Rambari, Ukyamura, Tulamura Kamalnagar and
Ghatigar, under the Bishramganj, Bishalgarh, Kalamchura, Sonamura and Melagarh police
stations.[3]Superintendent of Police Bijoy Debbarma, who led the operation, said the
destruction of the crop crippled a major supply chain and warned that such cultivation would
not be tolerated.[1][2][3]
Police estimated the street value of the destroyed plants at Rs 50 crore, and a preliminary
investigation suggested the crop was intended for interstate trafficking.[1][3]All detected
plants were uprooted and destroyed on site.[2][3]No arrests were reported in the accounts
opened.[1][2][3]
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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.
