14 Indians held with 149 kg of ganja in Dharan, Nepal
Nepal Police arrested 14 Indian nationals from Bihar at Jirogpoint in Dharan-13, Sunsari, on 11 February 2024 and seized 149 kg of ganja from vehicles coming from Dhankuta. The NDTV account of the same arrests called the haul hashish and reported 50 kg and 99 kg in separate vehicles.
Nepal Police arrested 14 people with about 150 kg of ganja at Jirogpoint in
Dharan-13, Sunsari, on Sunday, the district’s police said.[1]The 14 held are
from Purnia in Bihar, India, Police Superintendent Navin Krishna Bhandari said,
and they included two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old.[1]
A team from the temporary police post at Amarhat in Dharan checked vehicles
coming from Dhankuta towards Dharan and found 50 kg of ganja in one and 99 kg in
the other.[2]The total came to 149 kg of ganja, DSP Bhandari said.[1]Five
more people travelling in a third Indian vehicle, a BR 10 AJ 4486 car, were
taken into custody after police found it was involved in the transport.[2]
Lokpath reported the check followed a specific tip.[2]District Police Office
Sunsari said further investigation into the ganja trafficking was under way.[1]
The NDTV wire account of the same arrests reported that at least 14 Indian
nationals were arrested in three separate drug smuggling cases in Nepal that
Sunday and that 149 kg of the “contraband” was recovered.[3]The same wire
copy called the haul hashish.[3]NDTV said all of them were arrested in Dharan
city.[3]
Udghosh Daily recorded the arrest as taking place on Sunday morning and gave the
same total of 149 kg of ganja.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources give no time beyond Sunday morning, 11 February 2024.
The NDTV wire copy calls the 149 kg hashish, while the Nepali accounts reporting the same arrests call it ganja; the police accounts are followed here.
No charges, remand decision or court outcome was reported.
Sunsari Online gives about 150 kg in its lead and 149 kg in its body; the 149 kg police total is used.
The police press release itself was not found on the Nepal Police site for this date.
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.
