Police destroy 428,000 ganja plants in one day across Sepahijala
On 31 August 2025 Sepahijala district police with BSF, Tripura State Rifles and forest teams destroyed more than 428,000 ganja saplings in a one-day drive across Sonamura and Jatrapur areas, including 19 plots over 35 acres and 12 nursery plots holding about 200,000 saplings.
🇮🇳 Sonamura subdivision and Jatrapur, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
On 31 August 2025, Sepahijala district police in joint operations with the Border Security
Force (BSF), Tripura State Rifles battalions, forest officials and other agencies destroyed
illicit cannabis cultivation across the district from early morning.[1][2]In total, more
than 428,000 ganja saplings and plants were destroyed, which the reports called one of the
district’s largest one-day destruction drives.[1][2]
In the Jatrapur police station area, officers destroyed 12 nursery plots holding nearly
200,000 saplings in the deep forest at South Moheshpur and Katalia under the Sonamura
subdivision.[1][2]A second drive under Sonamura police station, with 81 BN BSF, the 9th and
7th BN TSR and forest teams, cleared 19 plots spread over 35 acres (about 14.2 hectares) at
Matinagar, Bijoy Nagar, Khatamura and Batadola, uprooting about 228,000 plants.[1][2]No
arrests, charges or case registrations over the destroyed plantations were reported.[1][2]
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Tripura Police destroyed more than 20,000 cannabis plants in the protected Neramura forest and seized 355.5 kg of dried ganja from Batadola forest land in a second operation the same day. Police valued the ganja at about Rs 1.78 crore and said no one had been arrested.
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.
