INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 17Ten people have been arrested along with 3.239 kilogrammes cannabis and 268.210 grams brown
sugar smuggled in from America through the General Post Office, Dilli Bazaar.
Tax official arrested with Rs 2.6 million
Two arrested with Rs 20 lakhs with unknown source in
Nawalparasi
The Narcotics Drugs Control Bureau,
Kathmandu, said six persons involved in the delivery of cannabis and four persons in delivering the heroin brought from America were
arrested on the basis of a tipoff.Bureau's superintendent Chakra Raj Joshi said police have initiated investigation against them in
accordance with the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 1976
The arrestees were paraded before the media today.
Superintendent of Police Joshi said they were held after cannabis was
found inside the parcels they were delivering.According to the police, a carton which was sent through post from America to be delivered in
Birgunj via the General Post Office, Dilli Bazaar, was examined out of suspicion and 900 gram brown sugar was confiscated
Dalluram and Habib Miya of Birgunj were held when 'control delivery' was conducted to search for the person coming to receive the carton
parcel.Similarly, 1.400 gram cannabis was found when another carton sent from America to be received in the District Post Office, Pokhara,
via the Dilli Bazaar post office was examined
Twenty-four-year old Ajin Vergese, an Indian national, who had come to collect the cannabis was arrested from the post office itself in that
connection.Additional 720 grams cannabis has been seized from his rented room.Renuka Tamang of Dadeldhura, who had come to collect the
cannabis that had arrived via post, has also been held
Based on her statement, Indian nationals Arun Kumar and Mohammad Naeem, who sent her to collect the contraband, have also been arrested
Nine hundred and thirty-nine grams cannabis has been confiscated from them
The Bureau said it had also apprehended Hikmat Hamal of Kanchanpur, Sanjaya Nepali of Dang, Binod Bhattarai of Morang, and an Indian citizen
Lal Miya currently residing in Jhapa in possession of brown sugar
More than 268 grams brown sugar has been seized from their possession.A version of this article appears in the print on September 18, 2023,
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