Kathmandu Valley police tally 444 drug cases and 378 arrests in a quarter
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.
Police in Kathmandu Valley registered 444 drug-related cases and arrested 378
people in the first three months of the fiscal year, from mid-July to
mid-October, the Kathmandu Valley Police Office in Ranipokhari reported.[1]The account does not give the weight of cannabis seized in the quarter, and
reports it alongside heroin, pollen and nearly 296,000 ampoules and tablets of
other drugs.[1]
The drug arrests formed one part of a wider Valley law-and-order campaign whose
headline result was the arrest of 1,162 absconding convicts.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no date for the release of the quarterly figures; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and stands in for the incident date.
No weight or quantity of cannabis is given for the quarter, and the cannabis is listed only among substances seized.
The 378 arrested and 444 cases cover all drug types in the Valley total, not cannabis alone, so the arrest figure is a mixed-drug figure.
The number of drug cases and arrests cannot be assigned to individual operations, districts or dates within the quarter.
No charges, convictions or court outcomes for the 378 arrested were reported.
Only one accessible account of this quarterly tally was found; The Rising Nepal cites police spokesperson DIG Gobinda Thapaliya but the police office's own release could not be opened.
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.
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.
Nepal's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested Bhawar Singh, 23, and Bandit Patel, 33, both from Gujarat, after 1.338 kilograms of marijuana arrived from the United States in a document shipment. Police seized the parcel in a controlled delivery.
