{"id":69760,"date":"2025-12-26T04:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/tightening-the-opium-belt-in-madhya-pradesh\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:15:18","slug":"tightening-the-opium-belt-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/tightening-the-opium-belt-in-madhya-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Tightening the opium belt in Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/r1mp4t\/article70433888.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/6744_20_12_2025_16_15_8_3_DSC_1904.JPG\" alt=\"Tightening the opium belt in Madhya Pradesh\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Tightening the opium belt in Madhya Pradesh<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">The Madhya Pradesh High Court\u2019s remark that a case against an 18-year-old man, arrested for illegal opium possession, was \u2018rather suspicious\u2019, led to the suspension of six police personnel. It also brought the focus back on Malwa region\u2019s historic opium cultivation. Mehul Malpani reports on how farmers find themselves caught between drug smuggling and crackdowns by government agencies<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/madhya-pradesh\/tightening-the-opium-belt-in-madhya-pradesh\/article70433879.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Tightening the opium belt in Madhya Pradesh The Madhya Pradesh High Court\u2019s remark that a case against an 18-year-old man, arrested for illegal opium possession, was \u2018rather suspicious\u2019, led to the suspension of six police personnel. It also brought the focus back on Malwa region\u2019s historic opium cultivation. Mehul Malpani reports on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}