Police intensify crackdown on ganja cultivation in Chamarajanagar
From June, 2024 to June this year, 21 cases were booked in MM Hills, Ramapura, and Hanur police limits, and 29 individuals were arrested on charges of sale and cultivation of ganja.
During routine patrolling and drives against such crimes, police nabbed persons involved in ganja transportation at checkposts located in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as well as in tribal villages bordering Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Chamarajanagar district. This includes Mahadeshwara police personnel seizing 1.5 kilograms of dry ganja. Ramapura police destroyed 240 kilograms of ganja plants that were ready for harvest, and 17 kilograms of dry ganja.
Hanur police also recovered 7.5 kilograms of dry ganja and 1.5 kilograms of wet ganja during different operations carried out over the past year.
Police, who used to bust the sale of ganja to college students in urban areas and youths in various villages of Hanur, are now concerned about tribal hamlets addicted to cannabis.
Chamarajanagar police have identified vulnerable pockets of ganja cultivation, as they received information that some tribals grow ganja for consumption.
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As ganja grows like a weed, department personnel find it tough to identify and eliminate such activities.
Police are also using camera traps to check the cultivation.
Speaking to TOI, deputy superintendent of police, Kollegal subdivision, Dharmendra, said officials were not only enforcing strict provisions against persons involved in such crimes under the NDPS Act. Production, sale, storage, import, export, transportation, encouragement, or permission of any kind for Marijuana, also known as ganja, are all considered crimes.
The department has also stepped up patrolling in remote areas to check such cultivation.
Apart from keeping a close vigil on ganja cultivation, the officials also sensitise students in colleges and educational institutions, as well as tribals living in the thick jungles of MM Hills, BR Hills, and Chamarajanagar district forest areas.
As youths in various border villages of Chamarajanagar district are addicted to ganja, there is an urgent need for police to crack down on such activities, said Manigar Prasad, district unit vice-president of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh.
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