Police in finding, ruin 15 lakh unlawful poppy vegetation in Mandi’s Chauhar valley; probe on
The Himachal Pradesh police have seized over 15 lakh illegally cultivated poppy vegetation (opium) on 66 bighas in Chauhar valley of Mandi district, officers mentioned.
4 police groups from Padhar got here throughout 3 hilltops lined with poppy vegetation in complete bloom, and destroyed the fields in a 17-hour operation during the last two days, police mentioned.
Consistent with Mandi SP, Shalini Agnihotri, the police division won a tip-off about an enormous space lined in poppy fields within the Chauhar valley. After an preliminary recce on Wednesday, 4 separate police groups reached Garh village in Tikken sub-tehsil on Thursday to find a patch of land the place poppy vegetation had been being cultivated illegally.
“On additional investigation, the police party used to be shocked to look 3 hilltops taking a look like a carpet of white plant life. A more in-depth glance instructed them that that they had in fact stumbled throughout hilltops that had poppy vegetation in complete bloom flowering level rising on them,” she mentioned.
Amid heavy rain and hailstorms, the groups climbed on and reached the primary hilltop after a three-hour trek, the SP mentioned. Then they descended and scaled the following two hills and located {that a} overall of over 66 bighas of presidency and personal land had been underneath poppy vegetation. “Right through the raid, round 15 lakh opium vegetation had been discovered and a few samples seized from the spot. The remainder vegetation were destroyed,” mentioned Agnihotri.
She mentioned that round 5 to 6 kilograms of opium is produced on one bigha land and the narcotic is then bought at round Rs three lakh in keeping with kilogram out there. “Accordingly, round 330 pounds of opium can have been made from this space with a marketplace value of round Rs 10 crore,” mentioned the police officer.
The police have registered 4 circumstances underneath segment 18 of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Components (NDPS) Act on the Padhar police station, and extra probe into the case is underway.
