Ahmedabad: A hashish plant was discovered rising in a nursery run by Ahmedabad Municipal Company (AMC) close to Vijay Crossroads within the metropolis on Tuesday.
The invention comes a day after two such crops have been discovered a couple of kilometre away on the Gujarat College hostel campus on Monday.
Jignesh Patel, the director of AMC’s parks and gardens division, confirmed the discover and mentioned no hashish plant was being grown deliberately on the nursery.“We carry soil and fertilizers from completely different locations. Hashish seeds might have include the soil inventory or by way of fowl droppings and germinated right here,” he mentioned.
A gardener tending to the nursery reiterated that the hashish had not been planted.
“We use soil from the riverbed, which is extremely nutrient in nature. Hashish seeds might have include the soil and brought root right here. We see at the very least one hashish plant sprouting from the soil each couple of months,” he mentioned.
ACP H M Kansagra of B Division police mentioned that he was not conscious of the brand new discover.
On Monday morning, NSUI and Youth Congress employees had discovered two hashish crops behind the D block of the Gujarat College hostel campus. A group from Gujarat College police seized the crops, measuring 6.5 toes and 4.5 toes.
On April 13, as many as 23 crops with hashish with an approximate market worth of Rs 80,000 have been discovered rising on the Marwadi College campus on Rajkot-Morbi Street.
