Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has told a court that rats have eaten nearly 200 kilograms of hashish recovered from drug dealers. The Uttar Pradesh court said that rats are very 'small animals' and have no fear of the police and it is not easy to protect hashish from rats. The court had ordered the police to testify in a drug-related case. In his ruling, the judge cited three court cases in which rats destroyed hemp and marijuana. Judge Sanjay Choudhary wrote in his judgment that the police had been asked to produce the seized drugs in court as evidence, but the police told the court that the rats had wasted 195 kg of hashish.
In another case, the police had filed a report in the court that some of the 386 kgs of hashish had been eaten by rats. Judge Sanjay Chaudhary cited another case in which the Uttar Pradesh police had told the court that 700 kilograms of seized hashish were lying in a police station where it was under threat from rats. The judge wrote that the police have no expertise to stop rats because they are so small. The judge suggested that the only way to protect the seized drugs from 'fearless little animals' is to sell them to medical companies and laboratories and deposit the proceeds into the government coffers.MP Singh, a senior police officer of Mathura district, said that the drugs stored in police stations in his area were damaged not by rats but by heavy rains.
In 2018, an Argentine court ordered the dismissal of eight police officers who blamed rats for the disappearance of half a ton of marijuana. The experts had refused to accept the police's position that the rats would mistake marijuana for food. Experts believed that if this had happened, a large number of dead rats should have been found in the police warehouse. A report published in 2019 stated that when rats were fed cannabis in a laboratory, it was found that the rats became sluggish and their body temperature also decreased. In 2017, police in the Indian state of Bihar took the stand that rats had consumed thousands of liters of seized liquor a year after the ban on alcohol in the state.n 2018, in the Indian state of Assam, when technicians went to fix a malfunctioning ATM machine, they found currency notes worth twelve lakh rupees shredded. This suspicion was also demonstrated in rats.
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