Two Indians held after marijuana found in a Sunsari ambulance
Security forces seized marijuana from an ambulance at Barahchhetra Municipality-2 in Sunsari and took two Indian nationals into custody, including the driver. Accounts differ on whether the load was 142 or 148 kilograms and on whether the stop was on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Two Indian nationals, including the ambulance driver, were taken under control
after a security force seized marijuana from an ambulance at Barahchhetra
Municipality-2 in Sunsari.[1]Superintendent of Police Keshav Kumar Thebe of
Sunsari said driver Dharmendra Kumar Yadav, 18, and Mohammad Sadam, 21, from
Bihar, India, were arrested over the contraband supply.[1]
Thebe’s account, as published that day, put the marijuana confiscated from the
ambulance at 142 kilograms.[1]A second account citing Thebe at the District
Police Office in Sunsari also put the seizure at 142 kilograms and said the
marijuana was found during a security check at Barahchhetra Municipality-2 on
Wednesday.[2]The contraband was discovered during a security check.[2]
Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandra Bahadur Khadka, information officer at
the District Police Office in Sunsari, gave a different figure for the same
stop.[3]Khadka said police seized an Indian-registered ambulance, number BR
07 PC 4765, carrying 148 kilograms of marijuana packed in plastic bags at
Pulthegauda in Barahachhetra Municipality-2 on Tuesday.[3]He named the same
two men, both of Birpur in Supaul district, Bihar, as the people arrested on
board.[3]Police suspected the ambulance was being used in an attempt to
transport the drugs into India.[3]Further investigation was under way against
the two men who had been arrested.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Nepal News and the Annapurna Express give 142 kilograms, while Khabarhub gives 148 kilograms for the same named suspects and place, so no single weight is recorded.
Nepal News, dated 6 May 2026, said the seizure was that day, the Annapurna Express said Wednesday, and Khabarhub said Tuesday.
No charge, court step or value for the marijuana was reported.
An automatically translated Ratopati page headlined three arrests while naming the same two men.
The text gives a weight ("148 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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