3 arrested over marijuana mailed from the US to a Kathmandu post office
Nepal Police arrested three people after a marijuana parcel from the United States arrived at the Dillibazar post office in Kathmandu. Manoj Kumar Rai was held when he came to collect it, and Rahul Chhetri and Ankit Kumar Shrestha were arrested after he gave a statement.
Nepal Police arrested three people on the charge of smuggling marijuana into
Nepal from the United States through the post office.[1]SSP Bikas Raj Khanal
of the Nepal Police Narcotics Control Bureau said officers first arrested Manoj
Kumar Rai of Kavre, who came to the Dillibazar post office on Monday to collect
his parcel.[1]Post office staff had alerted police to a suspicious parcel as
soon as it arrived.[1]Acting on what Rai told them, police then arrested
Rahul Chhetri and Ankit Kumar Shrestha, both of Kathmandu.[1]
Police said their investigation into the people smuggling marijuana was
continuing.[1]
Smugglers have increasingly turned Nepal’s post offices into a hub of drug
smuggling, importing drugs ordered through foreign online platforms.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
