303,000 cannabis plants destroyed on 151.5 acres in Sepahijala, Tripura
Sepahijala district police with Tripura State Rifles, forest officials and the CRPF destroyed about 303,000 immature cannabis plants across 151.5 acres of forest land on 23 December 2023. No arrests or cultivators were reported.
Sepahijala District Police, together with Tripura State Rifles (TSR) contingents, the Forest Department and the CRPF’s 140th Battalion, destroyed about 303,000 immature ganja plants in a joint operation on 23 December 2023.[1]The plants covered multiple locations spanning 151.5 acres (about 61.3 hectares) of forest land.[1]
The coordinated action brought together district police, TSR personnel from the 7th, 9th, 11th and 15th battalions, both men and women, alongside forest officials and the CRPF.[1]It aimed to curb illegal cultivation and trade in the region, and officials said such joint drives also protect the ecological balance of the forest lands.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
