Over 80,000 cannabis plants destroyed in three Tripura operations
Tripura Police and BSF teams destroyed more than 80,000 cannabis plants in three operations across Unakoti and Sepahijala districts on 18 December 2023. Police burned 20,000 mature plants in a forest reserve, while two BSF-led drives cleared 15 and 18 acres (6.1 and 7.3 hectares).
🇮🇳 Tripura · India
- Plants destroyed
- 80,000
- Hectares
- 13.4
Tripura Police and Border Security Force (BSF) teams destroyed more than 80,000
cannabis plants, known locally as ganja, in three separate operations across the
state.[1] The three drives took place on 18 December 2023.[2]
In Kumarghat sub-division, a police and Tripura State Rifles team led by
sub-divisional police officer Kamal Debbarma carried out a special drive at the
Ramdula para forest reserve area.[1] The team destroyed and burned about
20,000 mature plants in eight plots in Unakoti district.[1]
A BSF-led joint operation with the Narcotics Control Bureau, Tripura State
Rifles, Tripura Police and Excise Department destroyed about 31,500 immature
plants around Gajeria and Ganiyamara villages under Bishalgarh police station in
Sepahijala district.[1] Troops cut, uprooted and burned the plants on about 15
acres (6.1 hectares) at that site.[3] A second BSF operation with Kalamchoura
police station destroyed about 30,000 immature plants around South Kalamchoura
village and cleared about 18 acres (7.3 hectares).[3]
The BSF said it had been running a series of joint operations against illegal
ganja cultivation in Tripura for the past week.[3] It said 6,09,400 plants had
been destroyed in Tripura so far that season, mostly in Sepahijala district.[1]
Sources
- Over 80,000 cannabis plants destroyed across Tripura by BSF and police. NorthEast Now, 18 December 2023.
- Over 80, 000 cannabis plants destroyed across the state. Tripura Chronicle, 18 December 2023.
- BSF intensifies ganja destruction drive in Tripura, destroys thousands of ganja plants in West Tripura district. ANI, 18 December 2023.
Open questions the AI reported
- No arrests, suspects or court proceedings were reported for any of the three operations.
- ANI placed the Gajeria and Ganiyamara operation in West Tripura district, while NorthEast Now and Tripura Chronicle put it under Bishalgarh police station in Sepahijala district; the report follows the two local accounts.
- No area was published for the Ramdula para forest reserve plots, so the 13.4 hectares cover only the two BSF-led sites.
- Tripura Chronicle reports an earlier December drive that destroyed about 18,000 mature plants under Pecharthal police station; that is a separate event, left out here.
- No weight or estimated value was published for the plants destroyed.
- BSF intensifies ganja destruction drive in Tripura, destroys thousands of ganja plants in West Tripura district (ANI) could not be opened again to check its quotations (The browser page answered HTTP 403.; archived fallback unavailable (Wayback availability answered HTTP 429). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it.