The local crime branch (LCB) of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar rural police arrested two farmers at Lamkana in the jurisdiction of Karmad Police Station and seized cannabis plants worth ₹1 crore cultivated in their farms.

Police said that LCB PI Satish Wagh on Sunday received confidential information that cannabis is being cultivated in the farms at Lamkana in the Karmad area. Under the guidance of SP Vinaykumar Rathod, two teams were formed to conduct the raids on the farms in the evening. Accordingly, the raids were conducted in the farms of Kamal Ali Chand Shah and Chandrakant Raghunath Barbaille.

On the farm of Shah, cannabis plants were found planted inside the wall bean plants. In all, 94 cannabis plants weighing 253.14 kg and worth ₹50,82,800 were found. Similarly, marijuana plants were also found cultivated along with other crops on Barbaille’s farm. The police seized 82 plants weighing 241.21 kg and worth ₹48,25,000. The total cannabis plants seized from both farms are worth around ₹1 crore. Cases have been registered against Shah and Barbaille under the NDPS Act with the Karmad Police Station.

The police action was executed by PI Satish Wagh, API Pawan Ingale, PSI Deepak Pardhe, Bhaginath Wagh, Namdev Shirsat, Sunil Kharat, Santosh Patil, Shrimant Bhalerao, Kasam Shaikh, Valmik Nikam, Angad Tidke, Bhaginath Aher and others.