84,000 ganja plants destroyed over 42 acres in Sepahijala
Sepahijala police with Tripura State Rifles and other units destroyed about 84,000 immature ganja plants across 42 acres of forest land on 2 January 2024. The plants were uprooted and destroyed on the spot.
A joint force of Sepahijala district police, the 11th Battalion of the Tripura
State Rifles and KTDS and ACRRTC units destroyed about 84,000 immature ganja
plants across 42 acres (about 17 hectares) of forest land on 2 January 2024.[1]
The plants were uprooted and destroyed on the spot in a drive against illegal
cultivation in the district.[1]
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Plants burned during the Sepahijala 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.