Excises Department and police personnel on Sunday raided Hathipanka village under the Adaba police station in Gajapati and destroyed illegal ganja plantations in 52.4 acres of land. The drive was carried out on the instructions of district Collector Anupam Saha and Excise Superintendent Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi.As many as 1.04lakh trees were destroyed and set on fire in presence of Mohana Tehsildar Kalyani Sanghamitra Devi, who was in-charge of Magistrate duty. Adaba PS IIC Anand Charan Patra was also present during the raid.
In another development, Gajapati SP Tapan Kumar Patnaik has suspended four police officials in connection with an accused ganja mafia escaping from the premises of the Mohana police station on November 13.
The suspended cops were Constables Biswajit Sabar, Rama Shankar Sabar and Home Guards Duryodhan Karji and Sekhar Prasad Nayak.
