Sepahijala District Police, BSF, Tripura State Rifles and Forest Department teams destroyed approximately 360,000 mature cannabis plants across 38 plots and about 75 acres of forest in Kamalnagar, Batadola, Dhanirampur and Bijoy Nagar near Sonamura, Tripura, on 27 December 2025.
🇮🇳 Kamalnagar, Batadola, Dhanirampur and Bijoy Nagar forest areas, Sonamura, Sepahijala, Tripura · India
On 27 December 2025, Sepahijala District Police carried out an anti-narcotics operation with BSF, Tripura State Rifles, Forest Department teams and other agencies in forest areas around Kamalnagar, Batadola, Dhanirampur and Bijoy Nagar under Sonamura Police Station.[1]
The operation destroyed 38 cultivation plots containing approximately 360,000 mature cannabis plants across about 75 acres of forest.[1]
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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.
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