1.9 million cannabis plants destroyed across 650 acres in Sepahijala
Tripura Police, the Border Security Force and Tripura State Rifles uprooted about 1.9 million cannabis plants across roughly 650 acres of forest in Sepahijala district on 3 January 2026. Police put the crop at about ₹100 crore; no arrests were reported.
🇮🇳 North and South Kalamchoura, Anandapur and Ghatigarh, Sepahijala · India
On Saturday 3 January 2026 a joint force of Tripura Police, the Border Security Force
(BSF) and Tripura State Rifles (TSR) destroyed about 1.9 million cannabis plants spread
across roughly 650 acres of forest in Sepahijala district.[1][2][3]
Acting on intelligence, the teams worked in North Kalamchoura, South Kalamchoura,
Anandapur and Ghatigarh, areas named by police as plantation sites in dense forest.[1]Additional Superintendent of Police Rajib Sutradhar said drones had helped locate hidden
fields and that the crop was worth about ₹100 crore.[1]Tripura Chronicle said the
eight-and-a-half-hour operation covered 130 plots in Pashaniamura, Kalamchoura and nearby
areas, led by Sutradhar with Sonamura sub-divisional police officers.[2]
India Today reported nearly 600 personnel on the drive and quoted Sonamura station
officer-in-charge Tapan Das saying no arrests had been made and that processed ganja from
such plots is often smuggled to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.[1][3]Police described the action
as the largest single-day cannabis eradication in Tripura to date.[1][2]
Photos and video
Security personnel during the 3 January 2026 eradication drive in Sepahijala, shown with Tripura Star News coverage of the same operation.Photo details
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.
