Indian teen held as 270 kg of marijuana found in Bara truck
On 18 June 2024 Bara police stopped an Indian truck at Amalekhgunj for a routine check and found 270 kg of marijuana hidden inside, arresting the 19-year-old driver from Bihar.
Bara police arrested a 19-year-old Indian driver on 18 June 2024 after finding 270 kg of marijuana hidden in his truck at Amalekhgunj in Jeetpur Simara sub-metropolitan city.[1]
Officers stopped the Indian truck, registration plate NL 01 N 3063, travelling from Hetauda towards Pathlaiya for a routine security check at 12.30 p.m.[1]A search uncovered the marijuana concealed inside, and the driver, Antyas Kumar Giri of Dhanhar Dihuli, Ramgarhwa in Bihar, was arrested.[1]
The truck was impounded for further investigation, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police Dadhiram Nyaupane of Bara.[1]
Case data
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Police arrested nine people for possessing illegal drugs in separate operations across seven districts of Nepal, the Central Police News Room said. Only one case involved cannabis: about 80 kg of ganja found with a 55-year-old man at Balan Khola in Siraha, while the rest turned up brown heroin, brown sugar or prescription medicines.
The Kathmandu Valley Police Office in Ranipokhari reported 444 drug-related cases and 378 arrests in the first three months of the fiscal year, mid-July to mid-October, part of a wider law-and-order campaign in the Valley. Its account named cannabis among the drugs seized but gave no weight for it, grouping it with heroin, pollen and nearly 296,000 ampoules and tablets.
Nepal's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested two Indian nationals at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport with six kilograms of ganja flown in from Thailand. The pair, a woman from Ghaziabad and a youth from Madhubani, were caught during airport screening with two passports and four phones seized; questioning and investigation continue.
Police arrested five people while about 210 kg of marijuana in eight sacks was being loaded into two Scorpio vehicles in Chyandanda, Dharan. Officers fired two rounds in the air as the group tried to flee before taking them into custody.
