557 kg of ganja found in sacks in a Mechinagar tea garden, Jhapa
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 recovered 557 kg of ganja from a tea garden at Sirjana Chowk in
Mechinagar Municipality-5 of Jhapa district.[1][2][3]Officers found the ganja in 13
sacks on Friday morning in the personal tea garden of local Tekendra Thapa.[1][2][3]The Nepali-language account says the police team searched on the strength of a
tip that ganja had been left abandoned in the garden, and put the time at about
7:50 am on Friday.[4][2]
The garden’s owner, Thapa, is reported to be abroad.[4][2]Weighed with its
plastic wrapping the load came to 562 kg800 grams, and 557 kg without the
plastic.[1][3]The Nepali-language report gives the same figures, saying the 13
sacks weighed 562 kg800 g with plastic and 557 kg without it.[5]
Police said they had completed the necessary case record, or muchulka, and that
further investigation into the incident is under way.[1]Annapurna Post
likewise records 557 kg of illegal ganja recovered from the tea garden at
Sirjana Chowk, Mechinagar-5.[5]
Police said further investigation into the incident is under way.[2]
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The reports name no arrested suspect; the garden owner is reported to live abroad, and no arrest or charge is reported.
The reports do not say where the ganja came from, who left it in the garden, or give its street value.
The English account gives only Friday morning; the Nepali account puts the search at about 7:50 am on 20 Kattik 2083, which corresponds to 6 November 2026.
No separate incident date is given; 6 November 2026 is both the reported day of the search and the publication date.
The page photo is captioned only as the Jhapa tea garden seizure and carries no credit, so it is linked rather than treated as a verified picture of the seized sacks.
The Annapurna Express gives no weight for the sacks with plastic wrapping, so the 562 kg 800 g gross weight rests on the other cited accounts.
The Hindi edition is an automatic translation of Ratopati's Nepali story and carries a disclaimer that it may contain linguistic errors, so its wording is treated as identical in substance to the original.
The Hindi text describes the 13 containers as पैकेट (packets), a translation of the Nepali पोका; the pages do not establish precisely what kind of container held the ganja.
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