Driver held with 319 kg hashish in truck at Birgunj
Parsa police arrested 36-year-old Buddhi Bahadur Syangtan at Parwanipur Chowk in Birgunj with 319 kg of hashish hidden in a Kathmandu-bound truck. The Parsa District Court granted a five-day remand as police valued the haul at about Rs 10 million and investigated an India-bound smuggling route.
Police in Parsa arrested 36-year-old Buddhi Bahadur Syangtan with 319 kilograms
of hashish being smuggled by truck from Kathmandu to Birgunj.[1]Syangtan is a
resident of Thaha Municipality-12 in Makawanpur district.[1]A joint team from
the Simara-based police unit and the District Police Office, Parsa, tracked the
suspicious truck on a special tip-off and found it parked at Parwanipur Chowk in
Birgunj on Wednesday evening.[1]The Parsa District Police Office presented
the arrestee at a press conference on Thursday.[2]
Officers found 13 tightly packed bundles of hashish concealed inside white
plastic sacks in the truck’s rear cargo section, weighing 319 kilograms in
total.[1]Police intercepted truck Province 2–03–001 Kha 6348 en route to the
Sirsiya Dry Port in Birgunj.[2]Officers also seizedRs 192,000 in cash and a
mobile phone from the suspect.[2]The driver admitted transporting the hashish
from Dhading and intending to smuggle it into India through the Dry Port customs
checkpoint in Birgunj.[2]Police estimated the market value of the 319
kilograms at approximately Rs 10 million.[2]
The Parsa District Court granted a five-day remand for further investigation
after Syangtan was presented before it.[2]Parsa police chief Gautam Mishra
said the seizure may be the largest hashish seizure recorded by the Parsa
District Police to date.[2]Police said legal proceedings are under way under
narcotics control laws.[1]
Photos and video
Police photograph of the seized hashish published with the Birgunj truck seizure report. Photo: Nepal Police/facebookPhoto details
The two sources give different truck plates; this report uses the police account's Province 2–03–001 Kha 6348, while The Himalayan Times gives Province 2-03-003 Kha 6368.
The two sources give different cash seizures; this report uses Rs 192,000 from the police account, while The Himalayan Times gives Rs 121,000.
The sources place the interception at Birgunj Metropolitan City-14 and Birgunj-21 respectively, so the place is given as Parwanipur Chowk, Birgunj without a ward.
25 June 2025 is inferred as the Wednesday evening interception before the 27-28 June publications.
No court outcome beyond the five-day remand was reported.
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.
