19-year-old held with 244.77 kg of cannabis in Bhojpur
Bhojpur police arrested 19-year-old Ekraj Magar with 244.77 kg of cannabis on the Dhiring Khola riverbed in Hatuwagadhi. A court extended his custody by 20 days; outlets differ on the hour of the arrest and the number of sacks.
Bhojpur police arrested 19-year-old Ekraj Magar, of Aamchok Rural
Municipality-7, with 244 kilograms and 770 grams of cannabis.[1]He was taken
from the riverbed of Dhiring Khola in Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality-9, in
Bhojpur district of Koshi Province.[1]District Police Office information
officer Inspector Rakesh Rai said the arrest was on Tuesday afternoon, the day
before the 7 October briefing.[1]Naya Patrika, also citing the district
police office, said officers took the same 19-year-old into custody at 3:30 in
the morning on 20 Ashoj 2083 with 244.770 kilograms of cannabis.[2]
At a press meeting the next day at the District Police Office, Inspector Rai
said police recovered six sacks of cannabis, a motorcycle registered Ko.Pra.
01-02-046 Pa 8651 and a mobile phone from Magar.[1]Naya Patrika reported the
same motorcycle number and a mobile phone, and wrote that the cannabis was in 96
sacks.[2]Daksu Media also reported six sacks, a motorcycle and a mobile
phone, and gave the weight as 244 kilograms and 700 grams.[3]
A team of six from Area Police Office Ghoretar, led by Inspector Uday Kumar Rai,
and two officers from the district police office, led by Assistant Sub-Inspector
Pravin Rai, made the arrest.[1]The Bhojpur District Court extended custody by
20 days so the cannabis investigation could continue.[1]Daksu Media said the
arrest followed a special tip and that the 20-day court extension was already in
force.[3]Police said they were stepping up the district campaign against
cannabis and other drugs.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Himalaya Times said the arrest was on Tuesday afternoon and that six sacks were recovered; Naya Patrika said 3:30 a.m. on 20 Ashoj 2083 and 96 sacks. The report uses 6 October and six sacks from the police briefing.
Daksu Media gave the weight as 244 kg 700 g, not the 770 g reported by Himalaya Times and Naya Patrika.
The Himalaya Times photograph did not load in the opened capture and has no caption confirming it shows this seizure, so it was not listed.
The same Himalaya Times story also reports two people held with tramadol tablets at Tiwari Bhanjyang in Pauwadungma Rural Municipality-2, a separate event left out here.
No charge or sentence has been reported beyond a 20-day custody extension.
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.
