Two held as 20 quintals of marijuana found in Saptari homes
Police raided the homes of two men in Phattepur, Dakneshwori Municipality-6, on the morning of 20 September 2026 and recovered 20 quintals of marijuana in 120 sacks. Two people were arrested in the operation.
A police team mobilised from the District Police Office in Saptari reached
the homes of Bhola Sada and Mangal Mukhiya in Phattepur of Dakneshwori
Municipality-6 on Sunday morning during a regular patrol.[1]Officers
recovered 56 sacks of marijuana from Sada’s home and 64 sacks from Mukhiya’s
home, a total of 20 quintals.[1]
Two people were arrested along with the drugs, according to the central
police newsroom account carried by the outlet.[1]The report gives no
charges, no court outcome, and no destination for the consignment.[1]
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.
