Two arrested, 120 kg marijuana found in Dharan forest drive
Koshi Province Police arrested two men walking in from India with brown sugar and recovered 120 kg of unattended marijuana packed in black plastic in the Siran Community Forest area of Dharan-20. No one was held in connection with the marijuana, which police described as unclaimed.
🇳🇵 Siran Community Forest, Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-20, Sunsari · Nepal
Two people were arrested on 27 June 2026 under the anti-drug grand campaign of
the Koshi Province Police.[1]A team from the Area Police Office, Kumarkhod,
arrested 26-year-old Vivek Rai of Chulachuli Rural Municipality-3, Ilam, who was
walking on foot from India into Nepal with 2 grams820 milligrams of brown
sugar.[1]A joint team from the Area Police Office, Lauwahi, and the District
Police Office, Sunsari, arrested 25-year-old Nishan Karki of Itahari
Sub-Metropolitan City-17, Kanchichok, who was walking on foot from India into
Nepal with 1 gram290 milligrams of brown sugar.[1]
A team from the Koshi Province Police Office in Biratnagar and a joint team from
Temporary Police Post Jorsukhawa recovered 120 kg of marijuana packed in black
plastic, in an unclaimed state, from the Siran Community Forest area of Dharan
Sub-Metropolitan City-20.[1]Police put the combined recovery at 4 grams110
milligrams of brown sugar and 120 kilograms of marijuana.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
120 kg
Agency
Koshi Province Police
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (120 kg)
Setting
Forest or wild land
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Koshi Province
Date
Publication date
Sources
Ratopatienglish.ratopati.comTwo Arrested, Brown Sugar and Marijuana Seized in Koshi Province Anti-Drug Operation
Open questions the AI reported
The 120 kg of marijuana was unclaimed, so no one was arrested or charged in connection with it.
The article gives no separate incident date; 27 June 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No charges, court step, custody status or value estimate were reported for either arrest or the marijuana seizure.
Only one accessible account of this event was found, so the figures could not be corroborated by a second outlet.
The article does not say where the marijuana came from or where it was headed.
The 4 g 110 mg of brown sugar recovered in total is a non-cannabis amount in the same operation and is excluded from the cannabis figures.
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.
