While the Government of India permits legal farming of opium plants, this permission is given only to farmers in three states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. (File Photo)

A court in Gujarat convicted and sentenced two residents of Madhya Pradesh to 10 years in prison for inter-state trafficking of poppy straw, which is a regulated narcotic under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.

On suspicion, the Ahmedabad Zonal Unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had intercepted the two men near Mehmedabad, Kheda on December 22, 2022.…