15 lakh cannabis plants destroyed across 180 acres in Sepahijala
Sepahijala police with BSF, TSR and forest teams uprooted about 15 lakh matured cannabis plants across some 180 acres of Anandapur and Ghatigarh forest on 30 December 2025. Police put the destination market value at about Rs 75 crore; no arrests were reported.
🇮🇳 Anandapur and Ghatigarh forest, Sepahijala district · India
On 30 December 2025, Sepahijala district police with BSF and TSR battalions, forest officials and other agencies destroyed about 15 lakh matured cannabis plants across roughly 180 acres of forest at Anandapur and Ghatigarh.[1]
The operation began at 7:35 am on Tuesday and ran under Sonamura police station, led by Inspector Tapas Das, with men from the 81st and 49th BSF battalions, the 5th, 9th, 7th and 11th TSR battalions, Sonamura forest teams and the 14th women TSR battalion.[1]Officers destroyed 150 plots and put the destination market value of the crop at about Rs 75 crore.[1]
Das briefed the media the same day and said such operations would continue the next day.[1]No growers were named, and no arrests were reported.[1]
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Officers clear cannabis plants 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.
