Police fails to curb maoists’ opium trade

At least three Maoist groups have taken to opium cultivation and trading in parts of Bihar and Jharkhand. They have been taking advances running into several crores of rupees from middlemen and making farmers cultivate opium in the red zone. Large tracts of forestland have been cleared in parts of north Jharkhand and adjoining areas of Bihar for this illegal cultivation.

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