Nine held in Nepal drug roundup, 80 kg of ganja seized in Siraha
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.
Nine people were arrested for possessing illegal drugs in a Central Police News
Room briefing on operations in seven districts, reported on 9 November 2026.[1]The police statement lists one arrest in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-16,
two in Morang’s Belbari Municipality, one at Balan Khola in Bhagwanpur Rural
Municipality-4 in Siraha, one in Shuklaphanta Municipality-12 in Kanchanpur, one
in Gulariya Municipality-11 in Bardiya, two in Birtamod Municipality-5 in Jhapa
and one in Waling Municipality-8 in Syangja.[2]
The largest cannabis seizure was in Siraha, where Lahan area police arrested
55-year-old Devsharan Yadav with about 80 kg51 g of material suspected to be
ganja, the Nepali word for marijuana.[2]In Jhapa, two men were arrested at
Suryadal Tol in Birtamod Municipality-5 with 5 g40 mg of brown heroin.[2]The
remaining six arrests involved brown heroin or prescription medicines: 19 g80
mg of heroin in Shuklaphanta Municipality-12 in Kanchanpur, 1 g220 mg of brown
sugar in Gulariya Municipality-11 in Bardiya, and heroin or tramadol tablets in
Kathmandu and Belbari.[2]In Syangja, police from the Waling ward office
stopped a bus travelling from Butwal to Pokhara at Jaisipadhera in Waling
Municipality-8 and arrested a 22-year-old man with 67 ampoules each of
buprenorphine and phenergan and 86 ampoules of diazepam.[2]Nepal News reports
that marijuana and brown heroin were seized along with prescription-only
tramadol, spaspen, buprenorphine, diazepam and phenargan.[1]
Nepal Police said the necessary investigation was under way in the cases, with
no charges or court outcome reported.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The submitted brief gives no date for the arrests; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date, while the police statement dates the arrests to Sunday and Monday, 8-9 November.
The only stated cannabis weight is the approximately 80 kg 51 g of material suspected to be ganja in the Siraha case; no cannabis quantity, value or plant count was published for the other arrests.
Nepal News places two arrests in Birtamod Municipality-5, but the police statement puts the 2 kg 240 g of brown heroin case in Belbari Municipality-2 and describes only tramadol tablets for a separate Birtamod-5 arrest, so which two people the brief counts is not clear.
The brief does not distinguish its Birtamod addresses from the Belbari locations that the police statement lists for Morang.
The ganja is described only as material suspected to be ganja, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
No name, age or court outcome is given for most of those arrested, and no charges have been filed.
Left out agencies, as its quotation was not found in Nepal Police.
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.
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.
