Indian held with 3 kg Thai ganja at Kathmandu airport
Nepal police arrested 25-year-old Indian citizen Subodh Kumar at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport with three kilograms of Thailand-made ganja after he arrived from Bangkok. Police seized his mobile phone and passport, and said further investigation was under way.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Nepal police arrested an Indian citizen at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International
Airport with three kilograms of a prohibited narcotic substance.[1]Police
identified the arrested man as 25-year-old Subodh Kumar.[1]Kumar had arrived
in Kathmandu from Bangkok on Friday.[1]
During screening at the airport, officers recovered three kilograms of ganja
described as made in Thailand from his possession.[1]Police also seized his
mobile phone and passport alongside the drugs.[1]Police said further
investigation into the case was under way.[1]
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The article was published on 14 November 2026 and says the man arrived on Friday; 13 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
The 3 kg was described as Thailand-made ganja, with no laboratory confirmation or net-versus-gross weight stated.
No charges, detention measure or court outcome were reported; the case was described as under further investigation.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Hindi and English.
Left out arrested, as no supporting quotation was given.
Left out kg seized, as no supporting quotation was given.
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.
