Opium plants grown illegally on more than 100 acres of land in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand were destroyed amid tight security.
Opium plants grown illegally on more than 100 acres of land in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand were destroyed amid tight security. A police officer gave this information on Sunday.
Barhi Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Nazir Akhtar said that the campaign to destroy opium plants in several villages of Chauparan area, which was started on Saturday, was completed during the day. He told that the value of these plants has been estimated to be Rs 15 crore. He told that around 200 police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were present while destroying the opium plants growing on the land.
The SDPO said that after a 40-member forest department team, which had gone to destroy the saplings in the Bihar-Jharkhand border area on January 10, was attacked by villagers cultivating it illegally and anti-social elements, the police took it as a challenge. took. He said that 12 forest personnel were injured in the said attack and had to be admitted to the hospital. He told that the attackers had also snatched a tractor and three two-wheelers of the forest department employees that day.
Barhi sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Nazir Akhtar said, “We wanted to teach them a lesson. They dared to disobey government orders and grow plants. We have destroyed opium plants worth Rs 15 crore.” is estimated.” He said that when the security personnel entered the area for the operation on Saturday, the farmers ran away. However, the accused have been identified and an FIR has been registered in this regard, the SDPO said.
