Sirohi police find 4.5 tonnes of ganja in Rohida hills by drone, arrest seven
Police in Rajasthan's Sirohi district used high-range and small drones to locate cannabis fields hidden among maize and other crops in the Rohida hills, then reached them by GPS coordinates. They seized about 4.5 tonnes of cannabis plants under Operation Trinetra and arrested seven suspects.
🇮🇳 Rohida hills, Pindwara sub-division, Sirohi district, Rajasthan · India
Police in Sirohi district used drones to find cannabis cultivation hidden in
remote hills and forests, and seized a large number of plants after reaching the
fields on the drones’ GPS coordinates.[1]Growers had planted the cannabis
among maize, castor and other standing crops to conceal it.[1][2]
Police seized about 4.5 tonnes of cannabis plants under Operation Trinetra and
arrested seven suspects.[3][2]Police said they had been receiving continuing
information that ganja was being supplied in Sirohi, but could not find where it
was grown.[3]
Drone teams were formed under Pindwara circle officer Rahul Meena, and they
began searching the hills for the fields on informers’ tip-offs.[3]Police
used a high-range drone to search the distant hills and forests and small drones
to watch suspect spots closely, then sent teams to the GPS locations to identify
the growers.[3]Police said traffickers had turned the Rohida hills into a
safe site for cannabis cultivation.[3]In the Rohida hills the plants were
grown among maize, castor, fennel and bariali, a local fodder crop.[3]
Police said they would question the arrested suspects about the cultivation and
supply network and look for other people involved and where the ganja was sent.[3]
NDTV Rajasthan reported that police valued the seized plants at more than Rs 1 crore.[2]NDTV Rajasthan said police used drones and GPS for the first time to reach the network hidden in the difficult forests.[2]
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NDTV Rajasthan news video (3:42) on the discovery of cannabis cultivation in the Sirohi hills, the drone and GPS search and the seizures. Source: NDTV Rajasthan
NDTV Rajasthan video report (1:38) on the drone-assisted search of the Sirohi hills, the seizure of about 4.5 tonnes of ganja plants and the arrest of seven suspects. Source: NDTV Rajasthan
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Neither source gives a separate date for the operation; 7 November 2026 is the publication date of both and stands in for the incident date.
Police gave the plant seizure only as about 4.5 tonnes; no count of plants was published, so 4,500 kg is recorded as an approximate weight.
The sources do not say whether any of the plants were cut and burned or all were taken away, so the split between seized and destroyed plants is not recorded.
No area of the cultivated land was published, so no hectare figure is recorded.
It is not stated how many separate fields or sites were searched on this occasion.
The exact village or forest locality within the Rohida hills where the fields were found is not named; district-level coordinates are used.
The suspects' names, ages and the charges registered are not published, and no court outcome or remand decision was reported.
The accounts do not settle whether this drone operation, the 6 November four-field Rohida raid and the 16 October Valoria raid are parts of one series of searches.
Pindwara circle officer Rahul Meena supervised the drone teams here; earlier Sirohi raids also named a Rahul Meena as circle officer, and the overlap is not resolved.
NDTV Rajasthan gives no separate date for the drone search or the arrests; 7 November 2026 is its publication date.
The video description gives the plant quantity both as 15,000 kg of ganja cultivation in the hills and as about 4.5 tonnes of plants seized; the two figures cannot both describe the seizure, so the 4.5-tonne figure is used.
The video states the seized plants were worth more than Rs 1 crore but does not say whether the valuation covers all the fields found or only what was seized.
The video calls the seizing unit simply Rajasthan Police and names no officer, station or case number.
NDTV does not name the specific village or forest locality within the Sirohi hills, so the existing district-level coordinates still apply.
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.
