Assam Rifles destroy 16,500 cannabis plants in Tripura
Assam Rifles with Tripura Police and the Forest Service destroyed 16,500 cannabis plants spread over 16.2 hectares in the Boxanagar Forest Range under Sonamura on 9 January 2025, a haul they valued at about Rs 70 lakh.
🇮🇳 Boxanagar Forest Range, Sonamura, Sepahijala district, Tripura · India
Assam Rifles, with Tripura Police and the Tripura Forest Service, destroyed
cannabis plantations spread over 16.2 hectares in the Boxanagar Forest Range
under the Sonamura sub-division of Sepahijala district.[1][2]The 9 January
2025 operation eradicated about 16,500 plants, which the force valued at
roughly Rs 70 lakh.[1][2]The plantations lay in the general area of
Anandnagar police station inside the Boxanagar Forest Range.[1]
Assam Rifles presented the drive as part of a broader mission to stamp out
illicit cultivation and promote a drug-free region, with support from the
local administration.[1][2]The Rs 70 lakh valuation is the force’s own
estimate.[1][2]The accounts report no arrests and no seizure of processed
ganja.[1][2]
Case data
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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.
