Eight foreigners held with 39.3 kg Thai marijuana at Kathmandu airport
Police arrested eight foreign nationals — five from Myanmar and three from Punjab, India — at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport with 39.288 kg of Thai marijuana. The Drug Control Bureau said the group was caught during profiling of air passengers and remains under investigation for drug trafficking.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Police arrested eight foreign nationals at Tribhuvan International Airport in
Kathmandu.[1]The group comprised five citizens from Myanmar and three people
from Punjab, India.[1]The five Myanmar nationals arrived from Bangkok on Thai
Airways flight TG-319, and police said a check of their bags recovered cannabis.[2]Nepal Live gave their names as जार नि लिन, इ इ थ्वे, आङ ब्वार, चुए म्याट
थ्वाल सेइन and जिन म्यो आङ.[2]The three Indian nationals arrived from Phuket
on Batik Airways flight OD-541 and were identified as Khushdeep, Gurdeep Singh
and Kamini from Punjab.[2]
Officers found a total of 39.288 kilograms of high-grade Thai marijuana hidden
in the travellers’ luggage.[1]The Drug Control Bureau said the arrests came
during routine profiling targeting international drug-smuggling routes.[1]The
bureau said it had increased passenger profiling and surveillance after
information that cannabis with high THC content was being brought in by air.[2]Police also seized eight passports and eight mobile phones from the
detainees.[2]
Bureau officials said an investigation into drug-transport offences was under
way.[1]The bureau’s co-spokesperson and Deputy Superintendent Jeevan Niraula
said the eight remained under further investigation.[2]
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The report uses 17 August 2026, the arrival and interception date given by Nepal News; Nepal Live describes the arrests as on the night of Saun 32 and was published on Bhadau 2, corresponding to 18 August 2026, while Nepal News was published on 19 August 2026.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome were reported; the investigation into drug-transport offences was still under way.
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.
