14 held in Nepal drug roundup with 1.15 kg cannabis seized
Police arrested 14 people for alleged drug possession in operations across six districts of Nepal, with about 1.15 kg of cannabis reported in two of the cases. Muskan Rai was held with about 1.018 kg in Morang and David Khadka with 134 g in Chitwan, while the other arrests involved heroin, brown sugar, pills and ampoules.
🇳🇵 Morang, Sunsari, Parsa, Rupandehi, Bardiya and Chitwan districts, Nepal
Police arrested 14 people for alleged drug possession in separate operations
across Nepal.[1]The arrests spanned Morang, Sunsari, Parsa, Rupandehi,
Bardiya and Chitwan districts.[1]Muskan Rai was arrested in Kanepokhari-7 in
Morang with approximately 1.018 kilograms of cannabis.[1]David Khadka was
arrested in Ratnanagar-4 in Chitwan with 36 tablets of tramadol and 134 grams of
cannabis.[1]The suspects remained in police custody for further
investigation.[1]
Rajesh Kumar Ray and Radha Krishna Ray from India were arrested in Biratnagar-18
in Morang with 52.15 grams of suspected brown heroin.[1]In Sunsari, Sunil
Sardar was held in Itahari-13 with 126 tablets of nitrazepam, while Rikesh
Chaudhary was arrested in Itahari-9 with 510 milligrams of suspected brown
heroin.[1]Six people were arrested in Birgunj in Parsa district.[1]Faiyaz
Ansari and one other person were apprehended in Birgunj-25 with 150 milligrams
of suspected brown sugar.[1]In Birgunj-16, Sidhant Singh and one other person
were arrested with 610 milligrams of suspected brown sugar, and Raju Manandhar
was taken into custody at Rajatjayanti Chowk with 3.88 grams of suspected brown
sugar.[1]In Rupandehi, a teenager from India was arrested in Rohini-5 with
500 ampoules each of diazepam, buprenorphine and phenergan.[1]In Bardiya,
Karna Marsyangdi Magar was arrested in Gulariya-11 with 1.32 grams of suspected
brown sugar, and Dipesh Chaudhary was apprehended in Gulariya-6 with 570
milligrams of the same substance.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate date for the arrests; 11 October 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The cannabis figure of 1.152 kg is the sum of the two stated seizures, approximately 1.018 kg and 134 g, with the first described as approximate.
The arrested total of 14 covers the whole mixed roundup; only two of those held cannabis.
Weights and counts for suspected brown heroin, brown sugar, nitrazepam, tramadol, diazepam, buprenorphine and phenergan are non-cannabis amounts in the same event and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No charges, court appearances or outcomes were reported beyond continued police custody for investigation.
Only one accessible source for this roundup was found after searching.
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.
