Police in Thamel, Kathmandu, arrested 38-year-old Kabir Magar, a non-resident Nepali carrying an Australian passport, with vapes containing cannabis. Five vapes taken from him on Ashadh 25 tested positive for THC, and the Narcotics Control Bureau said he was under investigation in a drug case.
Police arrested a youth in Thamel, Kathmandu, with a vape mixed with ganja.[1]The arrested person is 38-year-old Kabir Magar, a resident of Lalitpur
Metropolitan City Ward No.-1.[1]The arrested man is a non-resident Nepali,
and police recovered an Australian passport from him.[1]
Five vapes recovered from the accused on Ashadh 25 tested positive for THC, an
element found in ganja, SP Durgaraj Regmi of the Narcotics Control Bureau told
Ratopati.[1]Police tested the recovered vape in the laboratory, and the
accused is being investigated in a drug case.[1]Online Patrika carried the
same account from SP Durgaraj Regmi of the Narcotics Control Bureau, naming the
five vapes and the THC finding.[2]
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No weight or volume of the vape liquid was reported, only the count of five vapes, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The article gives no date for the arrest; it says the five vapes were recovered on Ashadh 25, and 29 July 2026, the publication date, is used as the incident date.
Whether the vapes were for personal use or sale was not reported.
No specific charge or court outcome was reported; the Narcotics Control Bureau said only that the man was being investigated in a drug case.
The laboratory finding is described only as THC, with no statement of the liquid's form or its THC concentration.
Online Patrika reproduces the same Narcotics Control Bureau statement as Ratopati, so it is not independent reporting.
Whether all five vapes were recovered in Thamel, and whether the man was arrested there or later, was not stated.
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.
