Three Indians held with 11 kg of Thai marijuana at Kathmandu airport
Nepal's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested three Indian nationals at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with 11 kg of marijuana brought from Thailand via Hong Kong. Two couriers arrived on a Cathay Pacific flight on the night of 1 August 2026 and the third was detained as he came to collect the load.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Three Indian nationals were arrested at Tribhuvan International Airport in
Kathmandu with 11 kg of marijuana brought from Thailand.[1]The three were
arrested by a team from the Narcotics Control Bureau office in Koteshwar,
Kathmandu.[1]The arrested men were 30-year-old Sonu and 23-year-old Jagroop
Singh, both from Punjab, India, and 22-year-old Sahil from Haryana.[1]The
Bureau identifies the man from Punjab as 30-year-old Soni, which Ratopati’s
English translation renders as Sony.[2]
On the night of Saturday 1 August 2026, two of the men arrived at the airport on
a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Thailand that transited through Hong Kong.[1]The Bureau told Ratopati that the 11 kg was recovered from the two
passengers who landed in Kathmandu that night.[3]The same account dates the
landing to the night of Saun 16 in the Nepali calendar, which corresponds to 1
August 2026.[2]The third man had come to the airport to receive the marijuana
the other two had brought.[1]
Police arrested all three and began an investigation into drug-related charges.[1]The Bureau said the accused brought the marijuana from Thailand through
Hong Kong and that it was investigating them.[3]
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The 11 kg is the figure both outlets give, rounded to the nearest kilogram; no parcel or exact weight was published.
Two couriers carried the load and the third was arrested at the airport to collect it, so the sources do not say how the one without the drugs was placed at the scene.
No charges, custody ruling, remand or court outcome were reported; the Bureau described only an investigation into drug allegations.
The accounts are Nepali outlets reporting the Bureau's account, and Ratopati's English and Nepali editions are the same outlet, so no independent outlet was found.
The article does not give the flight number or where in Kathmandu the marijuana was to be taken.
The man from Punjab is spelled Sonu by OnlineKhabar and Soni in the Nepali account; the report uses Sonu.
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.
