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India: Cannabis plantations destroyed
The Statesman, India
Tuesday 27 Nov 2007 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 http://www.thestatesman.net
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