27/11/2007 00:00:00
India: Cannabis plantations destroyed
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PARALAKHEMUNDI, Nov. 27: On the directions of the district collector Mr
D V Swamy, the Gajapati excise department have seized and destroyed
cannabis plantations worth more than Rs 4 crore. This is the biggest
single raid in Gajapati district in the past decade and can be termed as
a success for the excise department. This is a part of the continuous
raids against hemp plantations, especially in the Naxalite-dominated areas.
Today's raid was conducted in the tribal dominated Sialilati panchayat
in the R Udayagiri block in the villages of Ramaguda and Dekai, which
are totally inaccessible .One has to trek 15 kilometres, over rivers and
roads along the mountain sides. Not a single person was present in the
villages when the contingent of armed police, along with the excise
staff and the labourers descended on the plantation area.
According to the excise department staff, hundreds of acres were lined
with the cannabis trees , and it took the labourers more than ten hours
to destroy more than 1.5 lakh trees in two patches. n sns
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