Two held with 54 kg of marijuana in a Hetauda truck
Makawanpur police in Hetauda arrested two men, one from Bara and one from Raxaul in India, in possession of 54 kg of marijuana hidden in a truck en route to Pathlaiya. The truck was detained and the marijuana seized for further investigation.
Makawanpur police arrested two people on the morning of Friday 14 June 2019 in
possession of 54 kilograms of marijuana in Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City-15,
Makawanpur district.[1]The two were identified as Rohit Shrestha, 28, of
Simara-2 in Bara district, and Sanjay Mahato, 44, of Raxaul in India.[1]
A police team led by Police Inspector Arun Kumar Kuswaha intercepted the truck,
Na 3 Kha 5340, on its way to Pathlaiya from Hetauda, where the two were
travelling with the drug.[1]Makawanpur District Police Superintendent Mukesh
Kumar Singh said the marijuana was found in 27 packets inside two sacks hidden
in the vehicle.[1]
Police said the truck was detained and the marijuana seized for further
investigation.[1]
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Two persons arrested in possession of marijuana in Hetauda, Makawanpur, on Friday 14 June 2019. Photo: Prakash Dahal/The Himalayan TimesPhoto details
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.
