Beed, March 25 A 60-year-old farmer from the Beed district of Maharashtra has been arrested for allegedly growing cannabis plants concealed within a sorghum crop, police said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a farm at Sushi (Wadgaon) on Tuesday and seized 42 cannabis plants valued at approximately Rs 1.74 lakh, they said.
The accused, Bhausaheb Tatyaba Turukmare, had intercropped the contraband with his sorghum plantation, they said.
Besides the police, forensic experts and officials from the revenue and agriculture departments were also part of the raid team, police said.
Turukmare has been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, they added.