Security forces destroyed nearly 45 acres of illegal poppy cultivation in Manipur's Churachandpur district, police said on Saturday.
CHURACHANDPUR — Security forces destroyed nearly 45 acres of illegal poppy cultivation in Manipur's Churachandpur district, police said on Saturday.
The illicit cultivation was destroyed on Thursday by a joint team of police, CRPF and the forest department at the Thangjing Hill Range in the district, a police statement said.
No person was found at the site during the operation, it said, adding that a summons was subsequently issued to the village chief of Lhangnon, under which the area falls.
Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had on October 19 said around 3,000 acres of illegal poppy cultivation had been destroyed in the state in the last one year and 467 suspected drug traffickers were arrested.