Police on patrol in Sarlahi arrested Lalbandi Municipality-14 residents Nar Bahadur Thing, 63, and Jesun Maya Thing, 52, with 660 kg of marijuana. Officers recovered 560 kg from a house and 100 kg from a cowshed, according to the Nepal Police newsroom.
A police team on regular patrol in Sarlahi district arrested two people with
more than 660 kilograms of marijuana.[1]The Nepal Police newsroom identified
the arrested pair as Nar Bahadur Thing, 63, and Jesun Maya Thing, 52.[1]Both
arrested people are residents of Lalbandi Municipality-14.[1]The pair were
arrested with 660 kilograms of marijuana on Wednesday.[1]
Police figures put the total Sarlahi seizure at 660 kilograms of marijuana.[1]Police recovered 560 kilograms of marijuana from Nar Bahadur’s house.[1]Police recovered another 100 kilograms of marijuana from Jesun Maya’s cowshed.[1]Together, the 560 kilograms and the 100 kilograms make up the reported
total of 660 kilograms.[1]
The marijuana was stored at a house and a cowshed when officers recovered it.[1]The Nepal Police newsroom is the authority cited for the names, ages,
address and amounts in this case.[1]The two Lalbandi residents were held with
the drugs during the regular patrol operation.[1]
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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.
