SSB uproots wild cannabis on about one acre in Tawang
The Sashastra Seema Bal's 38th Battalion uprooted wild cannabis across about one acre in the Bomja village area of Tawang district during an anti-narcotics operation on 11 August 2026.
🇮🇳 Bomja village, Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh · India
On 11 August 2026, the 38th Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) conducted an anti-narcotics operation in the Bomja village area under the Area of Responsibility of its G-Coy Bomja unit in Tawang district.[1]
The team found wild cannabis spread across about one acre, uprooted the plants and destroyed them to prevent misuse or illegal harvesting.[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.