News:2018-12-30/Report/siraha-police-destroyed-about-10-000-cannabis-plants-a-year-from-2015-16-to-2017-18

NewsReport30 December 2018

Siraha police destroyed about 10,000 cannabis plants a year from 2015/16 to 2017/18

myRepublica reported that, according to the records of the District Police Office in Siraha, police destroyed 11,347 cannabis plants in the fiscal year 2015/16, 10,730 in 2016/17 and 10,216 in 2017/18, and that no one was arrested in those years. It quotes Superintendent of Police Jiwan Shrestha as saying that most owners ran away when police reached their fields, and that cannabis sometimes grows without being sown.

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PlaceSirahaMadhesh ProvinceNepal

AgencyDistrict Police Office, Siraha

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2018-12-30 Report Siraha police destroyed about 10,000 cannabis plants a year from 2015/16 to 2017/18 myRepublica reported that, according to the records of the District Police Office in Siraha, police destroyed 11,347 cannabis plants in the fiscal year 2015/16, 10,730 in 2016/17 and 10,216 in 2017/18, and that no one was arrested in those years. It quotes Superintendent of Police Jiwan Shrestha as saying that most owners ran away when police reached their fields, and that cannabis sometimes grows without being sown. https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/index.php/news/police-destroy-cannabis-but-never-arrest-farmers Nepal Madhesh Province Siraha District Police Office, Siraha