Police 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.
🇳🇵 Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-13, Sunsari, Koshi Province · Nepal
A police team from the Area Police Office in Dharan found 440 kilograms of ganja
packed in plastic sacks inside an ambulance bearing the registration number Ko 1
Cha 7359 in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-13.[1]The team was checking the area
at around 12:40 am and found the sacks while inspecting the parked ambulance.[2]The ambulance was operated by Budhasubba Diagnostic Center Pvt. Ltd., a
private diagnostic centre in Dharan.[1]
Police said they were searching for the driver and others involved in the
transport of the ganja.[1]The first accounts of the seizure name no person
who was arrested.[2]The ambulance and the 440 kilograms of ganja were taken
to the Area Police Office in Dharan for further investigation.[2]
Nepal News reported the Dharan seizure as part of a pattern in which ambulances
were becoming a preferred vehicle for moving hundreds of kilograms of ganja from
fields in Nepal’s border districts toward India.[3]Sunsari borders the Araria
and Supaul districts of Bihar in India, and Nepal News reported that most of the
cannabis leaving the district crossed to India through the Koshi Rural
Municipality area around Bhantabari.[3]The Superintendent of Police of
Sunsari, Keshav Kumar Thebe, said smugglers used private cars, trucks and
ambulances because the open border made the trade hard to stop.[3]
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Source: Nepal NewsThe ambulance from which 440 kilograms of ganja were seized in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-13, published with the Ratopati report on the seizurePhoto details
No account states how many people, if any, were detained; the reports say the search for the driver was under way, and the arrest of one person in the structured data rests on the submitted long-read's account without a named suspect.
Ratopati gives the night as Baishakh 29 of the Nepali calendar and Makalu Khabar about 12:40 am on Tuesday; the long-read gives 12 May 2026, which is used as the incident date.
Makalu Khabar places the centre in Dharan-18 and spells its name 'Buddha Subba Diagnostic Center', while Ratopati and Nepal News give Budhasubba Diagnostic Center; the name used by two of the three accounts is adopted.
No charge, court step or value estimate for the 440 kilograms was reported.
The two photos listed come from the Nepal News and Ratopati pages; whether the outlets reprinted the same police handout could not be established from the captions alone.
The submitted long-read also recounts seizures in Koshi Rural Municipality-7, Inaruwa-7 and Kerabari, Morang; those are separate events and are not covered here.
Police in Jhapa recovered 557 kg of ganja from 13 sacks left in a private tea garden at Sirjana Chowk in Mechinagar Municipality-5. The garden owner is reported to be abroad, the reports name no arrested suspect, and police said further investigation was under way.
Police in Udayapur recovered 2,820.5 kg of marijuana packed in 85 sacks hidden in a field at Tilitle in Belaka Municipality-7. No suspects were found at the site and the consignment is held at the Area Police Office in Rampur while police investigate.
Armed Police Force officers found nine sacks of ganja being carried towards the Indian border at Jhajpatti in Siraha around midnight on 29 October 2026. The carriers fled, leaving 152.16 kg of cannabis, plastic wrapping included, which was handed over for legal action.
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.
