Rs 49 crore cannabis seized, 529 drug traffickers held in 3 months: Odisha police
This seizure figure and the arrest of traffickers did not include the recovery and arrest made by the Odisha Excise Department.
This seizure figure and the arrest of traffickers did not include the recovery and arrest made by the Odisha Excise Department.
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Police and SEB officials jointly destroyed 650 acres of cannabis cultivation in Munchingiputtu, Pedabayalu, G.Madugula, Annavaram and Seeleru.
“Canabis comes under the Ayurveda (Indigenous Medicine) Act,” Minister Jayakody told reporters. “It is a subject coming under the Department of Ayurveda.
The contraband was being smuggled to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh; police said adding that the drug peddlers were arrested under NDPS act provisions.
A pickup van was intercepted at Balimela under the Orkel police station area in Malkangiri district and 1,000 kilograms of cannabis locally called ganja was seized.
The cumulative seizure of brown sugar has jumped to 38 kilograms valued at around Rs 38 crore since 2020 with over 3.6 KGs of contraband confiscated in the past 72 hours in separate raids.
The cannabis seizure has gone up many folds in recent years. The STF has made a seizure of over 84 quintals of cannabis in the last twenty months.
The police also succeeded in tracing 66 bighas under illicit cultivation with 15 lakh poppy plants in a remote Tikken sub-tehsil in the Chauhar Valley of Mandi district.
