Massive ganja farm destroyed in Kerala's Attappady forest
Palakkad (PTI): The Kerala police on Wednesday said they have destroyed what is believed to be the state’s largest illegal cannabis plantation, hidden deep inside a forest in the Attappady region of this north Kerala district.
Officers from the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the district anti-narcotics unit and Pudur Police joined forces for the operation, trekking nearly five hours through dense forest to reach the site at the foothills of Sathyakkallumala, they said.
The teams found around 10,000 cannabis plants, each about three months old, spread across roughly 60 cents of land.
The plants were uprooted and destroyed on the spot.
Police said the raid followed information received by Kerala ATS DIG Putta Vimaladitya IPS about large-scale commercial ganja cultivation in the tribal belt of Attappady.
He alerted Palakkad district police chief Ajith Kumar IPS, who coordinated the operation.
"This was one of the biggest ganja cultivation raids ever conducted by Kerala Police," an officer said, adding that an investigation is underway to trace those behind the plantation and their possible links to illegal trade networks.
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J&K: One dead, seven hospitalised after consuming wild vegetable in Rajouri
Rajouri/Jammu (PTI): One person died while seven others, mostly children, were hospitalised after allegedly consuming a wild vegetable in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday.
The incident was reported from Mohra village in the Kotranka subdivision, where members of two families consumed a wild vegetable following which they started showing symptoms of food poisoning on Friday evening, they said.
The affected persons were initially shifted to the Community Health Centre in Kandi and later referred to the Government Medical College Hospital Rajouri for specialised treatment.
Officials said an elderly man, identified as Mohammad Hussain (60), died during treatment, while seven other members of the two families are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
“Prima facie, it is a case of food poisoning, but the matter is still under investigation,” a doctor said.
Officials said an investigation into the incident has been initiated to determine the exact cause of the poisoning.
