INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 5Police have rounded up 14 persons from Kathmandu and other parts of the country for allegedly
possessing, smuggling, and peddling drugs over the past three days.
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Janga Bahadur Rai, 35, of Panchthar, currently residing in Kathmandu, was
arrested with 142 grams of illegal brown heroin, Rs 950,000 in cash and a digital weighing scale
A team deputed from the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested him from his rented room in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.Kathmandu District Court
has remanded Rai to seven-day judicial custody to proceed with further investigation.
Shiddhi Ram Silpakar, 49, Bhaktapur
Municipality, was held with 21 grams of brown heroin and a digital weighing scale from Dudhpati of the same municipality.A special team of
the Narcotics Control Bureau Koteshwar searched his house and arrested him with the drug.Similarly, police arrested four persons with about
390 milligrams of brown heroin from Urlabari Municipality, Morang
Among those arrested are Jeevan Bishwakarma, 24, Sanjay Sahni, 40, Mithun Mandal, 29, and Ram Kumar Sahni, 25.On the basis of a special
information, the cops found them in possession of the drug while searching the rented room of Bishwakarma.Police said they were involved in
drug peddling.Three persons, including Tirtha Narayan Chaudhary, 23, of Bara Colbi Municipality, was arrested with 1.4 grams of brown heroin
and 240 grams of white heroin from Birgunj Metropolitan Municipality, Parsa
They were found to be transporting the drugs during security screening of two motorcycles they were riding on.In a separate operation,
police arrested Anjali Thing, 28, with 8.4 kilograms of marijuana from Jitpursimara Sub-metropolitan City
Acting on a special tip-off, cops deployed from Amlekhganj Police Station caught her for illegal possession of the drug during security
checking of her scooter.Likewise, four persons, including Nar Bahadur Ghimire, were held with 1.3 kilograms of hashish from Deukalia,
The police team jointly deployed from Sudurpaschim Province Police Office, Dhangadi and Area Police Office, Sukhad, arrested them with the
Police said they had launched further investigation into all the incidents.A version of this article appears in the print on September 06,
2023, of The Himalayan Times.
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