800,000 cannabis plants destroyed in Tripura's Sepahijala
Police in Sepahijala district, Tripura, destroyed nearly 800,000 cannabis plants and saplings grown illegally on about four acres at Boxanagar and Veluarchar on 18 September 2024. A Kalamchoura police-led team with Tripura State Rifles personnel carried out the raid, and officers said further operations would follow.
🇮🇳 Boxanagar area, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
Nearly 800,000 cannabis plants and saplings were destroyed in the Boxanagar area
of Sepahijala district, Tripura, on 18 September 2024.[1]The raid was led by
Naru Gopal Deb, the officer in charge of Kalamchoura Police Station.[1]Sub-inspectors Biswajit Debbarma and Shanti Tripura and Tripura State Rifles
personnel took part in the raid.[1]
The operation covered nearly four acres of land used for illegal cannabis
cultivation.[1]Police also destroyed cannabis nurseries north of Baba Bricks
Industry in the Veluarchar area of Sepahijala district.[1]
A police officer said such operations would continue in the coming days.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
800,000
Area
1.6 ha
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (800,000 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The plant figure is reported as nearly eight lakh, so 800,000 is an approximate converted total rather than an exact count.
The cultivated area is reported as nearly four acres, converted here to about 1.62 hectares, and is also approximate.
No arrests, seizures by weight, cultivators or court proceedings were reported for this operation.
The account gives the operation day as Wednesday, which matches the 18 September 2024 publication date used as the incident date.
Only one accessible source account was found, so the figures rest on a single police account.
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.
