Two held with 3.7 kg of marijuana on Kathmandu-bound bus at Naagdhunga
Police arrested two people carrying 3.7 kg of marijuana found during a security check on a passenger bus at Naagdhunga in Chandragiri Municipality-3, Kathmandu. The bus was travelling to Kathmandu from Dhading, and police said they were investigating the case.
Police arrested two people on Saturday, 1 October 2016, who were carrying 3.7 kg
of marijuana on a bus travelling to Kathmandu from Dhading.[1]Security
personnel found the contraband on the passenger bus registered Ba 3 Kha 827
during a security check at Naagdhunga in Chandragiri Municipality-3 of
Kathmandu.[1]Police said they were looking into the case.[1]
The same report counted two other young men arrested on Friday with 200 grams of
an illegal drug at Naya Baneshwor in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-34, a separate
case.[1]It identified them as Ram Krishna Tamang, 22, from Nuwakot and
Dipendra Gamal, 23, from Makawanpur, without saying which of the two cases
either man was held in.[1]
The article does not say how much of the 3.7 kg each of the two arrested people was carrying, or where on the bus the packets were hidden.
The two people arrested on the bus are not named; the report gives the names and ages Ram Krishna Tamang, 22, and Dipendra Gamal, 23, without saying which of its two cases they belong to.
The report does not say whether the 200 g found at Naya Baneshwor on Friday was cannabis, so that weight and those two arrests are left out of the figures.
No charge, value estimate or court outcome was reported, and only one account of the case could be found.
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.
