Nepal Police
🇳🇵 Nepal · Police · 12 reports
- People arrested
- 86
- Plants destroyed
- 18,500
- Cannabis seized
- 7.05854 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
570 kg in vegetables seized at Jahada, driver fled
An Armed Police Force team from the Nocha border outpost stopped a vegetable-laden pickup bound for India at Ramchowk, Jahada-4, around 11 PM on Saturday 10 October 2026. The driver fled; hidden among chayote and cabbage were 19 packets holding 570 kg of marijuana.
Cannabis 570 kgPolice seize 1,240.6 kg of marijuana from truck in Dhankuta
Nepal Police and Armed Police Force personnel stopped truck Na 4 Kha 527 at Phedi on the Koshi Highway on 8 September 2026 after its driver fled from a checkpoint. They found 1,240.6 kg of marijuana inside and took the truck and load to the District Police Office in Dhankuta.
Cannabis 1.2406 t1,122 kg of marijuana found in Udayapur forest, three arrested
Police in Katari, Udayapur district, found 1,122.67 kg of marijuana packed in 52 sacks hidden in Shantiban forest early on 31 August 2026 and arrested three men from Tapli. A Bolero pickup was seized, and police said they suspected the three were transporting the marijuana; investigation was continuing.
Arrested 3Cannabis 1.12267 tTwo arrested with 660 kg of marijuana in Sarlahi
Police on patrol in Sarlahi arrested Lalbandi Municipality-14 residents Nar Bahadur Thing, 63, and Jesun Maya Thing, 52, with 660 kg of marijuana. Officers recovered 560 kg from a house and 100 kg from a cowshed, according to the Nepal Police newsroom.
Arrested 2Cannabis 660 kgPolice find 440 kg of ganja in an ambulance in Dharan-13; driver sought
Police in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-13 seized 440 kilograms of ganja packed in plastic sacks inside an ambulance with the registration Ko 1 Cha 7359. The ambulance was operated by a private diagnostic centre in Dharan, and police said they were searching for the driver and others involved.
Arrested 1Cannabis 440 kgSites 1Vehicles confiscated 1Thai traveller held with 3.345 kg cannabis at Kathmandu airport
Nepal police arrested 39-year-old Thai national Yongyut Thuion at Tribhuvan International Airport on the night of 23 March 2026 after 3.345 kg of marijuana was found in his suitcase on arrival from Bangkok. He was handed to the Narcotics Control Bureau in Koteshwor, and no court step has been reported.
Arrested 1Cannabis 3.345 kgFather and son held with 1.92 kg marijuana in Rautahat shop
Police searched a grocery store in Santapur Tole, Fatuha Vijayapur-5, Rautahat, and seized 1.92 kg of marijuana. Shopkeeper Tejilal Yadav, 50, and his son Lalbabu Yadav, 22, were arrested and the case is under investigation.
Arrested 2Cannabis 1.92 kgPolice destroy about 18,500 cannabis plants in Sarlahi's Chure hills
A joint Nepal Police and Armed Police Force team uprooted about 18,500 cannabis plants on roughly three and a half bighas of land at Pipal Damar in Ishworpur Municipality-12, Sarlahi, on 12 December 2025. Officers acted as the crop neared harvest, and local residents who grow cannabis there for income disputed how the drives are run.
Plants destroyed 18,500Area 0.6 haTwo Indians held with 380 kg cannabis in truck at Bharatpur
Chitwan police arrested driver Anil Giri, 45, and helper Rajpal, 30, at Aanptari in Bharatpur on 19 December 2023 with about 380 kg of cannabis in 28 packets under a false bottom in their truck. Police call it ganja, one wire account calls it hashish, and one outlet puts it at 396 kg.
Arrested 2Cannabis 380 kg3 arrested over marijuana mailed from the US to a Kathmandu post office
Nepal Police arrested three people after a marijuana parcel from the United States arrived at the Dillibazar post office in Kathmandu. Manoj Kumar Rai was held when he came to collect it, and Rahul Chhetri and Ankit Kumar Shrestha were arrested after he gave a statement.
Arrested 367 pilgrims held for cannabis at Pashupatinath Shivaratri
Nepalese police arrested 67 pilgrims at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu on 10 March 2013 for smoking cannabis and disturbing the peace during the Shivaratri festival, the biggest such roundup of pilgrims to date.
Arrested 67Nepal police seize 2.6 tonnes of hashish in Makwanpur
Nepal police seized 2,640 kilograms of crude hashish packed in 88 plastic bags at Chalnakhel in Makwanpur district, described as the biggest hashish consignment ever caught in the country. Five men were arrested for collecting raw material from local farmers for a refinery supplying India and China.
Arrested 5Cannabis 2.64 t