Pickup driver held with 207 kg of marijuana at Bindabasini in Parsa
Police stopped a pickup at Bindabasini Rural Municipality-5 in Parsa on the evening of 4 August 2026 and found 207 kilograms of marijuana hidden in cement sacks. The driver, 48-year-old Krishna Lama of Hetauda in Makawanpur, was arrested and the pickup was seized; police said further investigation was under way.
Police arrested 48-year-old Krishna Lama of Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City-13,
Makawanpur, on Tuesday evening, 4 August 2026.[1]The arrest took place at
Bindabasini Rural Municipality-5 in Parsa district, where police stopped the
vehicle he was driving.[2]
Lama was driving a Tata Yodho pickup with registration number Province 3-01-024
Cha 5385, and police seized it along with the marijuana.[3]Officers found 207
kilograms of marijuana concealed inside cement bags in the pickup.[3]The
check was made at around 6:30 pm on Tuesday evening.[3]The District Police
Office Parsa named its spokesman and information officer, Deputy Superintendent
of Police Chakra Bahadur Mall, as the source of the account.[3]
Police said further investigation into the case is under way.[1]Galaxy Khabar
reported that police put the weight of the material found, which looked like
ganja, at about 207 kilograms and were investigating the driver for a drug
offence.[4]
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No charge, custody status or court outcome was reported; police said only that investigation was under way.
The exact date of the stop is given as Tuesday evening and the stories were published on Wednesday 5 August 2026, so 4 August 2026 is used as the incident date.
The weight is reported as 207 kilograms by the wire accounts, with Galaxy Khabar giving about 207 kilograms and describing the material as looking like ganja; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
No value estimate for the marijuana was published.
The exact stretch of road at Bindabasini Rural Municipality-5 was not named, so the coordinates mark the locality within Parsa district.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Onlinekhabar: According to the District Police Office Parsa, a joint team from the Pokhariya Area Police Office and the Prasaunibhatta police post stopped the driver during a routine vehicle check, acting on a special tip-off.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Onlinekhabar: The ganja was in the Tata Yodho pickup with number plate Province 3-01-24 Cha 5385, hidden in cement sacks in the vehicle.
Left out agencies, as its only supporting source is not cited by the report's text.
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.
