Two Sepahijala drives destroy 1.25 lakh cannabis plants
Two joint police and TSR teams destroyed more than 1.25 lakh cannabis plants across 23 plots in Sepahijala district on 6 December 2025. Officers cleared 25,000 premature plants near Nayajala and about a lakh matured plants around Bishramganj.
🇮🇳 Nayajala and Bishramganj areas, Sepahijala district · India
Two joint drives in Sepahijala district destroyed more than 1.25 lakh cannabis plants on 6 December 2025.[1]
Between noon and 2:30 pm, a team led by Inspector Arup Debbarma of Kalamchoura police station, with sub-inspectors, station staff, 9th Battalion TSR men and Boxanagar forest officials, worked the Nayajala gram panchayat area at Dopuriabhan Yasiadong Para.[1]That team uprooted about 25,000 premature plants across twelve plots in difficult forest terrain.[1]
From 11 am to 4 pm, a second team led by Inspector Ajit Debbarma of Bishramganj police station, with district branch staff, women police and 11th Battalion TSR men, moved through Latiacherra, Ram Krishna Para, Bhubhan Para, Chikan Cherra, Jogiram Para and Madhu Para.[1]That team dismantled about a lakh fully matured plants across eleven plots.[1]
The account presents the drives as part of an ongoing crackdown on cultivation networks in remote forest zones.[1]It names no growers, and no arrests were reported.[1]
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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.
