Ramban: The Doda Police destroyed illegal cultivation of poppy crops in Marmat and Bhalla areas and registered two separate cases at police stations Doda and Bhadarwah on Thursday.
Police sources said police posts of Goha, Marmat, Doda, and Bhalla Bhadrawah received specific information that some unknown farmers had cultivated poppy crops on their land at village Racho Rote area Marmat and in village Bhasti of tehsil Bhalla.
On this information, police teams of respective police posts of Goha and Bhalla led by the In-charge Police Posts reached the spots and destroyed the illegally cultivated poppy crop in the presence of the Executive Magistrates of Goha and Bhalla.
Police have registered two separate cases under relevant sections of law at police stations Doda and Bhaderwah respectively against land owners.