Father and son held with 1.92 kg marijuana in Rautahat shop
Police searched a grocery store in Santapur Tole, Fatuha Vijayapur-5, Rautahat, and seized 1.92 kg of marijuana. Shopkeeper Tejilal Yadav, 50, and his son Lalbabu Yadav, 22, were arrested and the case is under investigation.
Police in Rautahat arrested 50-year-old shopkeeper Tejilal Yadav and his
22-year-old son Lalbabu Yadav on Thursday afternoon in Santapur Tole, Fatuha
Vijayapur Municipality-5.[1]Officers from the Area Police Office, Santapur
Dostia, found the cannabis during a search of the grocery store operated by
Tejilal in the same locality.[1]The search seized1 kilogram and 920 grams of
illegal cannabis, which police described as marijuana.[1]Both men were
arrested at the shop, so this cannabis seizure accounts for two arrests.[1]
The Rautahat seizure was reported alongside other arrests that brought a
nationwide roundup total to 15 people across districts including Kathmandu,
Banke, Kanchanpur and Rautahat.[1]Other incidents in the same roundup
involved substances described as resembling brown sugar in Kathmandu, Banke and
Kanchanpur.[1]A Makwanpur seizure involved 3 kilograms and 478 grams of a
substance described as resembling opium.[1]
A Rupandehi seizure involved 12 ampoules of Diazepam, 16 ampoules of
Promethazine and 24 ampoules of Buprenorphine, none of which is counted as
cannabis here.[1]Police said further investigation is underway regarding all
the incidents, and no charge or court outcome for the two Rautahat men was
reported.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article was published on 20 March 2026 and dates the Rautahat arrests to Thursday afternoon, so 19 March 2026 is used as the incident date.
Only one accessible account of this seizure was found after searching for the names, place and quantity.
The same roundup reports separate brown-sugar-like, opium-like and pharmaceutical-ampoule seizures in other districts; those are different events and are left out of the cannabis figures here.
The page carries an image titled with the roundup headline, but nothing establishes that it shows the Rautahat shop seizure, so no photo is listed.
No charge, court hearing or sentence for the two men was reported; police said further investigation is underway.
Coordinates are for the Fatuha Vijayapur area of Rautahat, not a verified spot for the shop.
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.
