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LEMMI, 8 Apr:\u00a0<\/strong> A joint team of police, forest officials, and locals destroyed wild cannabis plants spread over 20,000 square metres here in Pakke Kessang district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n A special police team was constituted based on credible information received on the night of 7 April regarding large-scale wild cannabis cultivation under the jurisdiction of the Lemmi police station, to verify the inputs and take necessary action, Pakke Kessang SP Swati Singh said.<\/p>\n The information was shared with the district administration and the forest department to ensure coordination for a joint operation.<\/p>\n Subsequently, Pakke-Kessang district police, under the supervision of the SP along with officials from the forest department, and locals conducted a joint operation in the area near Sede Natung village. They destroyed the plants by uprooting and cutting them and burnt on-site as part of the destruction process.<\/p>\n The SP stated that such operations will continue in the coming days to curb illegal cultivation of narcotic plants in the district.<\/p>\n She urged the local residents to cooperate with law enforcement agencies by sharing information regarding such activities.<\/p>\n The public has also been advised to avoid narcotic substances, considering their adverse impact on society, particularly on youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LEMMI, 8 Apr:\u00a0 A joint team of police, forest officials, and locals destroyed wild cannabis plants spread over 20,000 square metres here in Pakke Kessang district on Wednesday. A special police team was constituted based on credible information received on the night of 7 April regarding large-scale wild cannabis cultivation under the jurisdiction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280927,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280908\/revisions\/280927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}