APF seizes 64 kg of cannabis at Sunsari border; battalion total 1,502 kg
Armed Police Force officers seized about 64 kg of cannabis at Soniahi in Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-8, Sunsari, as it was being carried toward India on the night of 9 December 2024. The battalion behind the seizure says it has taken 1,502 kg of cannabis since mid-July, up from 1,103 kg in the previous fiscal year.
Armed Police Force officers seized about 64 kg of cannabis from the border area
of Soniahi in Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-8, Sunsari, on the night of
Monday 9 December 2024.[1]The load was being taken from Nepal to India when
the Border Outpost of the force’s Sunsari-based No. 4 Battalion stopped it,
Superintendent Somenanda Bajracharya, the battalion chief, said.[1]Earlier, a
Border Outpost of the same battalion at Sahebgunj seized an auto-rickshaw
carrying about 35 kg of cannabis from the Chimdi Bazaar area in Barju Rural
Municipality-6.[1]
The battalion says it seized 1,502 kg of cannabis between mid-July and early
December 2024, against 1,103 kg in the previous fiscal year 2023/24.[1]The
confiscated cannabis was handed over to the Nepal Police for legal action.[1]
Bajracharya said the force had stepped up regular patrols, checkpoints and
operations based on confidential information to stop cannabis reaching India
through the open border.[1]The article links the border seizures to a
smuggling network that produces cannabis in the hill districts of Dhankuta,
Bhojpur and Udayapur in Koshi Province and moves it through southern Sunsari.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no exact date for the Soniahi seizure beyond "Monday night"; 9 December 2024 is the Monday before its 12 December 2024 publication.
The same page writes the agency as both APF and AFP; APF, the Armed Police Force, is used here.
No arrests, suspects, charges or court outcome are reported for either the 64 kg Soniahi seizure or the 35 kg auto-rickshaw seizure.
No separate date is given for the Sahebgunj auto-rickshaw seizure, and the vehicle's registration and occupant details are not reported.
The 1,502 kg is a cumulative figure for the battalion's seizures since mid-July and cannot be attributed to any single seizure; the same page opens by saying "more than 1,500 kg".
The weight of the cannabis in the Soniahi and Chimdi Bazaar seizures is given as approximately 64 kg and about 35 kg, not weighed figures.
No value estimate was published for the seized cannabis.
Only one account of this event could be opened; no Nepali-language outlet or APF statement was accessible for corroboration.
The page image has the alt text "blog", no caption and no credit, and is a 500-pixel file, so no photo is linked for this event.
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