Police in Shirpur taluka, Dhule district, found cannabis (ganja) being grown illegally on forest land in Ambapada shivar, the land around Ambapada village.[1] They seized about 610 kg of the crop, which police valued at ₹1.52 crore (1,52,50,000 rupees).[1] No one has been identified as the cultivator.[1] A case was registered against unidentified people at Shirpur police station and a search for them is under way.[1]

Police Inspector Kishorkumar Pardeshi received confidential information that unidentified people were growing cannabis on remote forest land in the hills.[1] Officers verified the information and raided the forest land.[1] They found a large plantation and seized the whole crop.[1]

Assistant Police Inspector Varsha Patil led the operation.[1] Police are investigating who cultivated the crop, whether a wider network is behind it and how far the illegal business reached.[1] Police said tracing the organisers behind the plantation was now their main challenge.[1] The discovery of large-scale cultivation in remote forest land caused a stir in the area.[1]