Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR, May 3: Continuing its crackdown on narcotics cultivation, police today destroyed an illegally grown opium poppy crop, spread over about four marlas of orchard land in the Larnoo area of Anantnag.

According to officials, Police Station Larnoo received credible information that an individual, identified as Ghulam Ahmad Sheikh alias Ama Khoja, a resident of Deesu, had allegedly cultivated opium poppy plants in his orchard at Lovlupora village.
Acting on the tip-off, police registered FIR No. 24/2026 under Section 8/18 of the NDPS Act and launched an investigation.
During the operation, a police team, accompanied by an Executive Magistrate, reached the site and destroyed the illicit crop.