Police fire warning shots, arrest three with 30 kg of marijuana in Parsa
Police acting on a tip-off arrested three people with 30 kg of marijuana in Malahi Tole, Paterwa Sugauli-1, on the night of 20 September 2026, firing two warning shots as suspects tried to flee. The case remains under investigation.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from the Area Police Office in Paterwasugauli
reached Malahi Tole in ward 1 on Sunday night and found people allegedly
transporting marijuana.[1][2][3]Officers fired two rounds into the air from a
pistol after the suspects tried to flee, and arrested three people with 30 kg
of marijuana.[1][2][3]
Those arrested are 50-year-old Mahesh Sahani, 34-year-old Nanda Lal Sahani,
and 75-year-old Bhuri Chaudhary, also called Bhuti, and District Police
Office spokesperson Chakra Bahadur Malla confirmed the operation.[1][2][3]Further investigation is underway.[2][3]
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Seized marijuana packets pictured by OnlineKhabarPhoto details
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.
