Two Thai women and an Indian man held with 5.2 kg of cannabis at Kathmandu airport
Nepal Police's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested two Thai women and an Indian man at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu after cannabis carried on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok was found as one of the women passed through the arrival area. Police put the load at 5 kilograms and 200 grams of marijuana.
🇳🇵 Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Nepal Police’s Narcotics Control Bureauarrested three foreign nationals at
Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu: two Thai women and one Indian man.[1]Narcotics Control Bureau said the contraband was brought to Kathmandu on
Thai Airways flight TG319 from Bangkok, which landed at the airport around 1 pm
on Tuesday.[1]Officers found the cannabis with a 27-year-old Thai national as
she approached the X-ray machine in the arrival area’s red channel, Narcotics
Control Bureau spokesperson SP Narayan Prasad Adhikari said.[1]
Police put the load at 5 kilograms and 200 grams of marijuana.[2]The two
other suspects were identified as a 24-year-old Thai woman and a 31-year-old
Indian man.[1]Police said further investigation showed the two others were
involved in the same smuggling arrangement and were then arrested.[2]
Police believe the main handler was based in Thailand, with Thai travellers
carrying cannabis into Nepal and Indian nationals moving it on to cities in
India.[1]The group is also suspected of using Nepal-India routes to send
drugs to Gulf countries in the past.[1]
Republica reported two days earlier that the 27-year-old Thai woman had been
arrested at the customs area with six kilograms of marijuana in her luggage and
handed to the Narcotics Control Bureau in Koteshwor.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Republica's headline and first paragraph say over 5 kilograms while Headline Nepal gives 5 kilograms and 200 grams; the report uses the more specific figure.
A Republica story on 8 April said six kilograms of marijuana were found in the Thai woman's luggage and that she was handed to the Narcotics Control Bureau in Koteshwor; the later account gives 5.2 kg and no weight would account for the difference.
The sources do not say whether any of the three was charged, produced in court or released.
Headline Nepal's copy refers to the woman with the pronoun him in places, apparently a translation error; the report follows Republica's identification of her as a woman.
Left out route, as its quotation was not found in Headline Nepal.
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.
