100 kg of marijuana seized from rice sacks in a Parsa field
A joint team of Parsa district police and Armed Police Force Nepal No. 13 Battalion Headquarters seized 100 kg of marijuana hidden in five rice sacks in a field at Muraiya Chowk, Jagarnathpur rural municipality-3, Parsa. Police said they were investigating who owned the consignment and why it was concealed, and reported no arrests.
A joint team from the District Police Office Parsa and the Armed Police Force
Nepal No. 13 Battalion Headquarters seized100 kilograms of marijuana in Parsa.[1]The marijuana was hidden in five rice sacks in a field at Muraiya Chowk in
Jagarnathpur rural municipality-3, Parsa.[2]
Hari Bahadur Basnet, spokesperson for the Parsa police, said further
investigation was under way into whose the marijuana was and why it had been
hidden.[2]Police said further investigation is under way to establish who
owned the marijuana and why it had been concealed.[1]
Police in Jhapa recovered 557 kg of ganja from 13 sacks left in a private tea garden at Sirjana Chowk in Mechinagar Municipality-5. The garden owner is reported to be abroad, the reports name no arrested suspect, and police said further investigation was under way.
Police in Udayapur recovered 2,820.5 kg of marijuana packed in 85 sacks hidden in a field at Tilitle in Belaka Municipality-7. No suspects were found at the site and the consignment is held at the Area Police Office in Rampur while police investigate.
Armed Police Force officers found nine sacks of ganja being carried towards the Indian border at Jhajpatti in Siraha around midnight on 29 October 2026. The carriers fled, leaving 152.16 kg of cannabis, plastic wrapping included, which was handed over for legal action.
An Armed Police Force team from the Nocha border outpost stopped a vegetable-laden pickup bound for India at Ramchowk, Jahada-4, around 11 PM on Saturday 10 October 2026. The driver fled; hidden among chayote and cabbage were 19 packets holding 570 kg of marijuana.
