Driver held with 160 kg of marijuana in car in Parsa
A joint APF and Nepal Police team stopped a Suzuki Swift at Pakahamainpur in Parsa on 16 February 2026 and seized 160 kg of cannabis from its trunk. Driver Buddhi Lal Ghalan was arrested and handed to the Pokhariya area police, with Rs 22,500 and a phone also recovered.
A joint Armed Police Force Nepal and Nepal Police team arrested one driver,
Buddhi Lal Ghalan, with cannabis in Pakahamainpur Rural Municipality, Parsa.[1]Officers caught Ghalan while he was attempting to throw packets of cannabis
from the trunk of his car.[1]Police handed Ghalan over to the Area Police
Office at Pokhariya for further legal action.[1]
On Monday 16 February 2026, the team intercepted Ghalan’s Suzuki Swift car
coming from Madhuwani Chowk in Pakahamainpur.[1]Officers seized160 kilograms
of marijuana from the car at Pakhaminpur.[2]The seized car was a Suzuki Swift
with registration Pra 3-01-002C 5432.[2]
Officers also recovered Rs 22,500 in cash and a smartphone from the driver.[2]The APF Nepal 13th Battalion headquarters, through Superintendent Mohan Bahadur
Kshetri, was named as the source of the account.[2]
The arrested driver was sent to the Area Police Office at Pokhariya for
necessary action, according to the APF 13th Battalion commander.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
