Two Indian women held with 4 kg cannabis at Kathmandu airport
Nepal’s Narcotics Control Bureau arrested two women from Manipur at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with four kilograms of cannabis. The pair had flown in from Bangkok on Thai Airways flight TG 309 and were caught after raising suspicion.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Nepal’s Narcotics Control Bureauarrested two Indian nationals at Tribhuvan
International Airport in Kathmandu.[1]Both of those arrested at the airport
were women.[1]One suspect was identified as 20-year-old Mona Devi Longjam
from Manipur.[1]The other suspect was identified as 23-year-old Oinam Ally,
also from Manipur.[1]The bureau took both suspects into custody at the
airport.[1]
The pair had arrived in Kathmandu from Bangkok aboard Thai Airways flight TG
309.[1]Bureau officers intercepted the two suspects after they raised
suspicion at the airport.[1]Officers searching their luggage discovered four
kilograms of cannabis concealed inside their suitcases.[1]Police seized the
cannabis contraband found in the suitcases.[1]Officers also seized two
passports and two mobile phones from the suspects.[1]
The cannabis had been brought from Bangkok and hidden in suitcase luggage.[1]A further investigation into the matter was currently under way.[1]The two
passports and two mobile phones were held as part of that ongoing investigation.[1]
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Seized cannabis displayed after the airport arrest. Photo courtesy: Narcotics Control BureauPhoto details
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.
