Statesman News Service
MALDA, 28 JAN: Bengal Excise department and the police jointly undertook a drive to destroy marijuana and poppy plantation at Narayanpur village in Kaliachak police station today. The drive would continue for the next two days.
According to officials of the exercise department, the locals were cultivating marijuana and poppy in more than 300 acres of land in the area. Owners of land under cultivation of the two narcotic substances fled the village after the raid. Bengal Excise superintendent in Malda Mr T K Mohanta said officials of the land reforms department were measuring the plots of land under cultivation and examining records of such land.
‘We would take action against the land owners who were cultivating cannabis and poppy or leased out their land for its cultivation”, Mr Mohanta said. The Excise department today engaged several labourers to uproot the cannabis and poppy plants and burned those.
Commenting on today’s raid, the Malda SP Mr Bhuban Mandal said that they would continue destroying cannabis and poppy plantations where found in the district.
“The programme was started from Narayanpur village and would cover the rest of the district”, he added. Excise department officials feared to visit the Narayanpur and its adjoin Majampur area earlier as those were under the control of Mr Tuhur Ali Biswas of the Congress and Mr Asadullah Biswas of the CPI-M , both with criminal activities under their belt.
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