Narcotics Bureau officers in Kathmandu arrested ten people collecting drug parcels mailed from the United States through the General Post Office at Dilli Bazaar.[1] The Bureau said six of those held were involved in taking delivery of cannabis parcels and four in taking delivery of heroin parcels.[1] Dalluram and Habib Miya of Birgunj were held after a controlled delivery identified who came to collect a suspect carton addressed to Birgunj.[1] Twenty-four-year-old Indian national Ajin Vergese was arrested at the post office when he came to collect a cannabis carton addressed to the District Post Office in Pokhara.[1] Renuka Tamang of Dadeldhura was held after coming to collect cannabis that had arrived by post, and Indian nationals Arun Kumar and Mohammad Naeem were arrested on the basis of her statement that they sent her to collect it.[1] Officers also apprehended Hikmat Hamal of Kanchanpur, Sanjaya Nepali of Dang, Binod Bhattarai of Morang and Indian citizen Lal Miya, who lives in Jhapa, in possession of brown sugar.[1]
Police put the cannabis total at 3.239 kilogrammes and the brown sugar total at 268.210 grammes.[1] Officers reported finding 1,400 grammes of cannabis in the Pokhara-bound carton and seizing another 720 grammes from Vergese’s rented room.[1] Officers reported seizing 939 grammes of cannabis from Tamang, Kumar and Naeem.[1] Officers reported seizing more than 268 grammes of brown sugar from Hamal, Nepali, Bhattarai and Miya.[1]
The suspect parcels had been sent by post from America and routed through the Dilli Bazaar post office toward Birgunj and Pokhara.[1] Superintendent Chakra Raj Joshi said investigation against the ten had started under the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 BS, after cannabis was found inside parcels they were delivering.[1]
