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News:2025-07-30/Enforcement/sonamura-police-destroys-2-87-lakh-ganja-plants-on-11-plots-at-bathadola-bijoy-nagar +
On Wednesday 30 July 2025, a Sonamura Police Station-led joint operation with the Border Security Force destroyed approximately 287,000 cannabis plants across 11 Forest Department plots at Bathadola and Bijoy Nagar in Sonamura sub-division, Sepahijala district. The operation was led by Sonamura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Tapas Das. No arrests were made as no individual claimed ownership of the plantations. An investigation to identify the cultivators on the encroached Forest Department land was reported as ongoing. +
Thanjavur fishermen rescued two Sri Lankan nationals — A. Ajandhan (36) and V. Jeevanandam (51) from Talaimannar — found stranded in the sea off Maravakadu coast, clinging to diesel cans after their boat collapsed. Seven bags containing approximately 200 kg of cannabis were found floating alongside them, tied to the men. The fishermen from Keezhathottam near Athirampattinam alerted Athirampattinam marine police, who arrested the pair upon landing. The suspects had been attempting to swim back to the Sri Lankan coast with the contraband after their vessel failed. +
Sri Lanka granted approval to seven foreign investors, selected from 37 applicants, to legally cultivate cannabis for pharmaceutical export under a Board of Investment project. Each investor holds a six-month temporary licence, must deposit $2 million with the Central Bank, and commit a minimum $5 million investment. Cultivation will take place on 64 acres in Mirigama under STF and police security. No part of the plant may enter the domestic market. The initiative aims to boost foreign exchange earnings. +
The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) urged the NPP government to reverse its decision to permit cannabis cultivation for medicinal and export purposes. The SLMA argued that approved medical uses internationally are limited to rare conditions, that global pharmaceutical demand for cannabis has declined since 2021 per the INCB, and that multinational cannabis companies are expanding into new markets to recover losses. The association warned that secure plantations would be "practically impossible" given existing enforcement challenges, and that increased street availability was a likely outcome. The SLMA described the policy as the "first breach of the dam" protecting Sri Lankans from widespread cannabis use, dismissing projected foreign currency inflows as insignificant compared to the $500 million in monthly expatriate remittances. +
News:2025-08-31/Enforcement/jatrapur-police-destroys-2-lakh-ganja-saplings-on-12-nursery-plots-at-south-moheshpur-katalia +
On Sunday 31 August 2025, a Jatrapur Police Station-led joint operation destroyed approximately 200,000 cannabis saplings across 12 nursery plots in deep forest areas at South Moheshpur and Katalia under Sonamura sub-division, Sepahijala district. The operation was led by Jatrapur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Smriti Kanta Bardhan with Tripura State Rifles personnel. The operation was one of two parallel same-day Sepahijala destruction drives, alongside a Sonamura Police Station-led op at 19 forest plots in the same sub-division, totalling over 428,000 saplings destroyed district-wide. +
News:2025-08-31/Enforcement/sonamura-police-destroys-2-28-lakh-ganja-plants-on-19-plots-and-35-acres-in-sonamura +
On Sunday 31 August 2025, a Sonamura Police Station-led joint operation destroyed approximately 228,000 cannabis plants across 19 forest plots covering 35 acres in Sonamura sub-division, Sepahijala district. The operation was led by Sonamura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Tapas Das with Border Security Force and Forest Department personnel. The operation was one of two parallel same-day Sepahijala destruction drives, alongside a Jatrapur Police Station-led op at 12 nursery plots in South Moheshpur and Katalia, totalling over 428,000 plants destroyed district-wide. The combined district-wide effort was reported as one of the largest single-day anti-drug operations in Sepahijala at the time. +
News:2025-08-31/Enforcement/three-bihar-residents-arrested-at-agartala-railway-station-with-29-kg-of-dry-ganja +
Around 31 August 2025, three individuals from Bihar including two women were arrested at Agartala Railway Station, West Tripura district, after police recovered approximately 29 kg of dried cannabis from them. The arrest was confirmed by Agartala Government Railway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Obadur Rahaman. +
News:2025-09-04/Policy/marijuana-has-displaced-yaqona-and-dalo-as-fijis-top-cash-crop-says-police-commissioner +
Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu told media that cannabis has displaced traditional cash crops yaqona (kava) and dalo (taro) in parts of Fiji, citing its faster harvest cycle and higher financial returns. Tudravu identified Kadavu as a major production base and said cannabis cultivation was becoming generational among younger Fijians. He warned that Fiji was no longer simply a drug transit point and that money from cannabis was entering the legitimate economy. Tudravu called for coordinated government action and community-based alternatives to cultivation. +
News:2025-09-15/Enforcement/sonamura-police-recover-1-027-kg-dry-ganja-in-24-drums-at-dhanirampur-adc-village +
On Monday 15 September 2025, Sonamura Police acting on intelligence input recovered approximately 1,027 kg of dried cannabis packed in 24 drums from a reserve forest area under Dhanirampur ADC Village, Sonamura sub-division, Sepahijala district. The recovery was led by Sonamura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Inspector Tapas Das. Officials indicated the market value of the seized material ran into several crore rupees. No arrests were made. Tripura shares an 856-km international border with Bangladesh, over 95 percent of which is fenced; Tripura cannabis was reported as smuggled into Bangladesh as well as to Indian states including Bihar. +
News:2025-09-24/Enforcement/cooch-behar-district-police-destroy-marijuana-cultivation-across-multiple-locations-in-coordinated-operation-2 +
The Cooch Behar district police launched a special operation against illegal marijuana cultivation across multiple locations on September 24, 2024, destroying marijuana plants from several hundred bighas of land. Special police teams conducted coordinated campaigns in Manghpala under Cooch Behar Kotwali Police Station, Bhogar Dabdi of Sitalkuchi, Azimpur and Shalmara in Sahibganj, Balrampur under Tufanganj Police Station, and Balasi Hazrahat area of Mathabhanga Police Station. The operation was in response to rising illegal marijuana cultivation and ongoing ganja smuggling cases in the area. Despite the extensive destruction of marijuana crops, no arrests were made. Police officials confirmed that such campaigns will continue across the district to combat illegal drug cultivation and smuggling. +
News:2025-10-06/Trafficking/kibungan-police-seize-10-3m-worth-of-dried-marijuana-at-poblacion-checkpoint-benguet +
Kibungan Municipal Police Station, under Acting Chief of Police PCpt Arnel Abellera, seized 86 kilograms of dried cannabis in tubular form at an early-morning checkpoint in Barangay Poblacion, Kibungan, Benguet on 6 October 2025. Police reported the seized material at a standard drug price of ₱10.32 million. A white Mitsubishi Strada pickup stopped approximately 100 metres from the checkpoint; its two occupants abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot before officers could reach them. No arrests were made. Kibungan Mayor Agustin Tello, a retired police colonel, commended the station for maintaining checkpoint operations in the early hours of the morning. PNP Acting Chief Police Lieutenant General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. and PNP Spokesperson Police Brigadier General Randulf Tuaño issued separate statements framing the seizure as part of the PNP's sustained posture against cannabis trafficking in Benguet and the wider Cordillera. +
News:2025-10-19/Enforcement/pdea-and-pnp-uproot-11-502-marijuana-plants-at-south-cotabato-sultan-kudarat-boundary +
Agents from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 12 (Soccsksargen) and partner Philippine National Police units uprooted and destroyed approximately 11,502 fully grown cannabis plants on 19 October 2025 at a plantation straddling the boundaries of Columbio (Sultan Kudarat) and Tupi and Tampakan (South Cotabato). PDEA-12 reported the plantation as physically located in Barangay Miasong, Tupi. The seized material carried an estimated street value of ₱2.3 million. Most of the plants were incinerated at the site; two were retained for laboratory examination to serve as court evidence. PDEA-12 Regional Director Benjamin C. Recites III credited community intelligence with enabling the operation and appealed for continued tip-offs. The alleged plantation operator, known only by the alias "Jan Cris," remained at large at the time of reporting. +
The Colombo Crime Division arrested a major trafficker involved in smuggling Kerala Ganja from India to Sri Lanka by boat. The suspect was apprehended in the Jaffna area after a prolonged surveillance operation. Over 10 kg of Kerala Ganja was seized. The arrest followed information from 'Anandan,' who had previously supplied a boat used in the escape of a key suspect in the Ganemulla Sanjeewa shooting incident at the Aluthkade Court Complex — linking the KG trafficking network to organised violent crime. +
News:2025-11-02/Enforcement/churaibari-police-destroys-5-000-ganja-plants-at-katuacharra-balicharra-adc-north-tripura +
On Sunday 2 November 2025, a Churaibari Police Station-led operation destroyed approximately 5,000 cannabis plants on tilla land at Katuacharra in Ward No. 2 of Balicharra ADC Village, Churaibari Police Station area, North Tripura district. The operation ran from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm under the supervision of the Sub-Divisional Police Officer Dharmanagar with Churaibari Police Station personnel and Tripura State Rifles. The cultivation site was located in remote and isolated terrain approximately 3 km from the National Highway. The illicit cultivation was uprooted and destroyed on the spot. +
News:2025-11-04/Trafficking/police-arrest-two-men-seize-17-7m-worth-of-dried-marijuana-at-bakun-checkpoint-benguet +
Police operatives of the 1st Benguet Provincial Mobile Force Company arrested two men at a checkpoint in Barangay Gambang, Bakun, Benguet on 4 November 2025. According to the police account, a vehicle approaching the checkpoint at Sitio Gakian reversed course toward Barangay Ampusongan and was intercepted after a pursuit at Sitio Mogao, also in Gambang. The two occupants, aged 25 and 24, reportedly claimed to be residents of Parañaque City. Officers recovered 127 tubular bundles of dried leaves totalling 127 kilograms, reported at a standard drug price of ₱15.2 million; a yellow sack containing 10.27 kilograms of dried leaves valued at ₱1.2 million; and a garbage bag holding 10.4 kilograms of dried leaves and stalks also valued at ₱1.2 million. The suspects and seized material were taken to Bakun Municipal Police Station for processing and filing of charges under Republic Act 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. +
News:2025-11-11/Enforcement/police-destroy-55-000-cannabis-plants-in-coordinated-bishalgarh-operation +
A coordinated anti-cannabis operation led by Bishalgarh SDPO Bikash Senthia (IPS) destroyed approximately 55,000 cannabis plants across 25 plots in the Banshibari forest area on November 11, 2025. The six-hour operation (6 a.m. to noon) involved joint forces from Bishalgarh Police Station, TSR, BSF, CRPF, Charilam Forest Department, and 14th Battalion Women TSR personnel. The cultivators reportedly observed from nearby forests as their crops were uprooted and burned. Local residents alleged that unlike Bishalgarh police, Kalamchaura police have avoided anti-cannabis operations in their jurisdiction due to alleged influence and monetary inducements from cultivators. +
News:2025-11-14/Enforcement/bareskrim-destroys-51-75-hectares-of-cannabis-across-26-sites-in-gayo-lues +
Bareskrim Polri's narcotics directorate destroyed cannabis fields totalling 51.75 hectares across 26 sites in Gayo Lues regency, Aceh, on 14 November 2025. The fields lay inside Gunung Leuser National Park, spread across the Blangkejeren, Putri Betung and Pining districts. The investigation began with the arrest of two suspects in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, the day before, who were carrying 47 kg of cannabis. Police said growers floated dried bagged cannabis downriver to waiting couriers, who packaged it by the kilo for distribution. +
News:2025-11-18/Enforcement/sepahijala-police-mega-drive-destroys-12-lakh-ganja-plants-on-120-plots-across-five-police-stations +
On Tuesday 18 November 2025, a Sepahijala District Police-led joint operation, informally referred to by some units as the 'Mega Cannabis Plants Destruction Drive', destroyed approximately 1,200,000 semi-mature cannabis plants across 120 plots in remote forest areas at Sutarmura, Toktumadum, Chitta Rambari, Ukyamura, Tulamura Kamalnagar and Ghatigar, falling under the jurisdictions of the Bishramganj, Bishalgarh, Kalamchura, Sonamura and Melagarh police stations. The operation ran from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm with over 500 personnel deployed, including the District Police, the 1st, 7th, 11th and 14th Battalions of the Tripura State Rifles, the Central Reserve Police Force, Women TSR, district civil administration and Forest Department. Officials estimated the destroyed material at approximately ₹50 crore. The operation was led by Sepahijala Superintendent of Police Bijoy Debbarma. A preliminary investigation indicated the cannabis was likely intended for interstate trafficking. The operation was the largest single-day Sepahijala district destruction drive on record at the time. +
News:2025-11-20/Enforcement/women-clash-with-security-forces-during-cannabis-destruction-at-melkabari-khowai +
On Thursday 20 November 2025, a joint Forest Department, police and BSF operation at Melkabari under Baijalbari Police Station area, Khowai district, destroyed approximately 4,000 mature cannabis plants by burning across roughly five kanis (~2 acres) of government forest land. Officials estimated each mature plant at over one kilogram of dried ganja. After the destruction, a group of local women allegedly armed with sticks and rods attacked the security team. Police fired tear gas shells to disperse the group. Two security personnel — a Forest Department guard identified as Sushanta Bhowmik and a BSF jawan — were injured, and two police vehicles were vandalised, with one initially unrecoverable from the site. The damaged vehicle was later recovered using a crane. Senior police officials reached the location and additional police were deployed. A case was registered in connection with the attack and an investigation initiated. +
Gonaganara Police conducted a four-day operation inside the Yala Reserve area, uncovering three separate cannabis plantations totalling approximately 200,000 plants across 10 acres. The first site covered five acres with approximately 100,000 plants; the second spanned three acres with approximately 60,000 plants; the third covered two acres with approximately 40,000 plants. Officers also seized 50.6 kg of dried cannabis ready for distribution. No suspects were arrested; investigations are ongoing. +