Three held in Kathmandu with 3 kg of Thai marijuana
The Narcotics Control Bureau arrested a Myanmar woman and two Indian men at Sohrakhutte, Kathmandu, on 13 September 2026 with 3 kg of marijuana routed from Thailand via Vietnam and Hong Kong. Officers said the load would be worth about 12 million rupees if it reached India.
The Narcotics Control Bureauarrested three people at Sohrakhutte in
Kathmandu with 3 kg of marijuana brought from Thailand.[1][2][3]
The courier was Jin Jin Phyo, 29, a Myanmar national.[1][2][4][3]She carried the
marijuana on a Cathay Pacific flight routed through Vietnam and Hong Kong.[1][2][3]Bureau officers followed her from the airport and arrested her at
Sohrakhutte on Bhadra 28.[1][2][3]Police recovered the 3 kg of marijuana she
had brought.[1][2][4][3]
Two other people who had come from India to receive the marijuana were also
arrested: Barkatullah, 30, from Gorakhpur, and Yusuf Khan, 25, from Uttar
Pradesh.[1][2][4]Police watched the hotel where the Myanmar woman was staying
and arrested the two Indians when they arrived to collect the drug.[1][2]
The woman had been living in Singapore and working as a carpenter.[1][2][4]Her travel history showed she went to Vietnam, received a suitcase with
concealed marijuana from another Myanmar national there, and came to
Kathmandu via Hong Kong.[1][2]Officers involved in the investigation said
the recovered marijuana would be worth about Rs12 million if it reached
India.[1][2][4]The Bureau is investigating the accused under the Narcotics
Act.[1][2]
The two Indian men came to Hotel Green Orchid in Thamel to collect the marijuana.[4]The reported 12 million rupee valuation for the 3 kg load was denominated in Indian Rupees.[4]Phyo accepted an offer covering her round-trip tickets and hotel expenses and was told in Singapore to carry a suitcase from Vietnam to Kathmandu.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Both accounts are the English and Nepali editions of the same outlet, not two independent outlets.
13 September is the Gregorian equivalent of Bhadra 28, the arrest date given in the Nepali calendar.
The source says the marijuana would be worth 12 million rupees if it reached India but does not specify the currency, so no structured value is recorded.
No court outcome for the three accused was reported.
The same article also describes other seizures — 8 kg on 22 August, a 3 kg 200 gram DHL parcel on 10 August, a 910 gram postal parcel on 25 September, and totals of eight Myanmar carriers since August 2026 and more than 483 kg since August 2024 — which are separate events left out of this report.
Both the existing English and Nepali sources and this new English account come from Ratopati, so they are not independent outlets.
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.
