Kartavya: Duty with Dedication
Chapter:13
The Cultivation of Poison
Ganja Cultivation
in Aravalli! Isn’t it hard to believe? But the whole division was stunned when
the Aravalli district police cracked a massive racket of Ganja cultivation down
based on information.
The youth
of a country is the future of her. Therefore, the enemies of the country are always
in a search for an opportunity to ruin the lives of such promising youths by
making them addicted to drugs. Drugs, heroin, Charas, Ganja, opium, these all
are the absolute poisons to obtain their target., Although, the government is grave
serious and set on to stop drug addiction. The Aravalli district LCB busted a
huge racket of Ganja cultivation worth around two and a quarter crore and dealt
a huge blow to the enemies of the country.
While describing
that heart-felt operation, LCB PI K.D. Gohil tells: “I was busy with my routine
office works on that day as usual. There I got an unknown call from a stranger speaking
in a panicked voice. As he said he had something very serious to inform. He
added anxiously that his life might have been in danger if someone could have come
to know about his giving the information. Yet, he wanted to share for it was an
indispensable news.
“I
assured him for his identity would be skeleton in the cupboard. My heart dropped
for a moment when I heard what the stranger said the next. He carried on
mumbling, “Sir! The youth of the country will be ruined. Please do save them.
The poisonous Ganja is cultivated in one of the villages of Bayad block. Please
cease this cultivation and extricate the youth of our great nation, Sir.”
“At first, I was shocked to know about the
cultivation of Ganja in our district itself, but the stranger had a stab of
pain in his voice. As there was a ring of truth, the wheels were set in motion
to investigate in that direction.
“I
shared all those particulars with District Police Chief Sanjay Kharat. He took
the matter extremely seriously and ordered an immediate investigation to detain
the entire racket.
“We
started on a secret mission. First, we connected the stranger who had called
me. the Our team reached at night for a search operation in the fields of the
village where Ganja was being cultivated. The whole village was fast asleep.
The police team reached the outskirts of the village with full preparation. That
stranger also joined us. Although he had a mask on his face. We could only see
his eyes. Our team moved towards the direction under his leadership. We were
passing fields one after another in the dark night. There the stranger halted
at the edge of a field. where Toor was grown. The man beckoned us to enter the
farm.
“Crossing
the big Toor plants, when we reached at the middle of the field, we were
stunned to see the Ganja plants grown under the semblance of Toor cultivation.
As it became necessary to examine the surrounding farms as well, we proceeded. And
it was beyond our imagination. In second field, we got the same scenery, also
in third, in fourth and in fifth and so on…. it continued. The whole team was
amazed to see such a large amount of Ganja cultivation.
“The operation lasted for 36 hours day and night. With the
help of drones, the crops grown in the fields of an area of about two kilometres
were monitored. We needed many tractors as we started to collect the complete Ganja
cultivation. A total of 2272 kg of green Ganja plants were seized. The
estimated cost of which was two and a half crores. The entire police team was
awake day and night and carried out the entire operation.
“With that
successful operation, the police confiscated the belongings that ruined the
lives of many youths. Criminals who were cultivating Ganja were caught. The
next question was how the Ganja seed reached there. After rigorous enquiry, we
found that the Ganja seeds were supplied by 'The Elephant Maharaj' - as the
supplier was identified by that name only among the accused. The accused knew
neither the face nor the original name of the supplier.
“A
tip-off from a stranger led to an important operation. Even after the success
of the operation, the man refused to give his true identity to the police. And
we also respected his sentiment of anonymity. I wanted to ask the informant one
last question about why he got us the respective information on the verge of
his death. His answer shocked my heart.
“As he replied,
'Sir, I also had a brother whose life was ruined by the Ganja addiction. At the
end, his condition was so pathetic. As a family we could not help him anyhow. I
have lost my brother. I have risked my life so that no other brother should
follow this path of destruction.”
Contentment
reflects in the eyes of PI K.D.Gohil for successfully completing that operation
as he concluded the report here.
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Kartavya, a police diary by Mr. Ishwar Prajapati in Gujarati
©️Translated into English by Pallavi Gupta🌷
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