Cost Worth One Crs Cannabis Cultivation is Destroyed

Uttam Nayak,Odishabarta

Koraput: Cannabis was illegally cultivated on 4 acres of land in Kumbharput village under Koraput district Machhkunda police station. According to sources, the district police and the excise department jointly raided Kummbharput and Harganda villages. Eighty thousand cannabis plants have been illegally cut down and burned on four acres of land. The estimated cost of the cannabis was Rs 1 crore. Nandapur sdpo Sanjay Mohapatra, Machhkunda Tahsildar Manas Patnaik, Nandapur Tahsildar Narsingh Gadba were also present.