Two Indians held with 18 kg Thai marijuana at Kathmandu airport
Police arrested Indian nationals Sanjeev Kumar and Rajiv Kumar at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with 18 kg of Thai marijuana. The pair arrived from Bangkok via Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific flight and remain in custody for drug-trafficking investigation.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Two Indian nationals who had arrived from Bangkok via Hong Kong were arrested on
Tuesday night at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu in possession of
18 kilograms of marijuana.[1]The arrestees were identified as 36-year-old
Sanjeev Kumar and 26-year-old Rajiv Kumar, both residents of Punjab, India.[1]According to Superintendent of Police Durga Raj Regmi, spokesperson for the
Narcotics Control Bureau, the duo was intercepted at the airport’s arrival
customs area.[1]
Officers seized the 18 kilograms of marijuana carried by the pair at Tribhuvan
International Airport.[1]The suspects had arrived in Nepal aboard a Cathay
Pacific flight.[1]Police said the marijuana they carried on that flight was
produced in Thailand.[1]Upon landing, the suspects attempted to flee by
abandoning their luggage at the arrival customs area to avoid arrest.[1]
Preliminary investigation found the pair had planned to smuggle the contraband
into India through a local Nepali agent a few days later.[1]Both individuals
were taken into custody and remain held for further investigation.[1]
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The article gives no separate incident date; it was published on 12 August 2026 and says the arrest happened on Tuesday night, so 11 August 2026 is used as the incident date.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome were reported; both men were described only as taken into custody for further investigation.
No value, packaging breakdown or flight number for the Cathay Pacific service was published.
Only one accessible account of this event was found after searching for the names, airport, route and quantity.
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.
