{"id":10551,"date":"2020-10-15T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:11:14","slug":"in-a-record-haul-odisha-has-seized-over-100000-kilos-of-weed-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10551","title":{"rendered":"In a Record Haul, Odisha Has Seized Over 100,000 Kilos of Weed This\u00a0Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><cite><strong>City Bell Live | Janhavi Patil |<\/strong>\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36<\/cite><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The busts have been made possible by a system of mapping poppy cultivation through satellite imagery, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been an\u00a0increased demand for drugs\u00a0in the lockdown and dealers are taking risks to deliver them not only around the county but also across borders. With several other industries going through a pause, people who were otherwise employed in different professions\u2014from\u00a0food delivery agents\u00a0to\u00a0teachers\u2014have had no choice but to sell drugs\u00a0to make ends meet. But with the increasing demand has also been a huge number of busts that have taken place through 2020.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, on October 14, the Odisha police claimed that they seized more than 1,000 quintals (or 100,000 kilos) of weed this year across this eastern Indian state. The Crime Branch of the Police, the special task force and the district police personnel have together seized 1,054 quintals of weed by September 30.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe average annual seizure of ganja during the past 10 years has been 312 quintals,\u201d said the Director general of Police, Abhay at a press conference in Cuttack. \u201cIf we take the average of the past five years, it would go up to 414 quintals. However, our law enforcement agencies have managed to confiscate 1,054 quintals of cannabis\u20142.5 times of average annual seizure of the last five years.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odisha is one of the leading producers of cannabis in the country, where clandestine cultivations in the remote forest are said to thrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-28-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10535\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Bell Live | Janhavi Patil |\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36 The busts have been made possible by a system of mapping poppy cultivation through satellite imagery, developed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}