Indian man arrested with 6.1 kg of hashish in Kathmandu hotel
Kathmandu police arrested an Indian national with 6.1 kg of hashish at a hotel in Kalanki on the night of 17 March 2020. The hashish had been hidden in a plastic bag.
Kathmandu police arrested an Indian national carrying 6.1 kg of hashish at
Kalanki on the night of 17 March 2020.[1]A team from the Metropolitan
Police Circle at Kalimati stopped Anawar Ali Ansari at a hotel in Kalanki.[1]He had hidden the hashish in a plastic bag.[1]
Police said Ansari would be presented before the Kathmandu district court to
extend his remand, according to Deputy Superintendent Rugam Kunwar.[1]
Case data
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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.