Kathmandu: Nepal Police have arrested 10 individuals from different parts of the country in connection with suspected illegal drug possession, including two Indian women detained at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) with 14 kilograms of marijuana.
The two women, identified as 46-year-old Sheikh Shabanabanu Yar Mahammad and 35-year-old Ansari Sharifa Abbas, both from Gujarat, India, were arrested outside the airport’s arrival area after arriving in Kathmandu on a Batik Air flight from Malaysia.
In Kathmandu, police arrested 21-year-old Umesh Magar of Lalitpur and 27-year-old Milan Mishra of Dhankuta from Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-4 on Monday night.
A team deployed from the Thali Police Division reportedly recovered 90 tablets of the controlled drug Tramadol from their possession.
Similarly, in Siraha, police arrested 41-year-old Shiva Shankar Sah from Dhangadhimai Municipality-10 after recovering 6.27 kilograms of marijuana.
In a separate incident in the same municipality, 56-year-old Jhanak Bahadur Thakuri was detained with 16 kilograms of a substance suspected to be marijuana.
In Kanchanpur, police arrested 24-year-old driver Ashis Luhar from Bhimdutta Municipality-4 during a vehicle inspection. Authorities reportedly recovered 2.62 grams of a substance suspected to be brown heroin.
Meanwhile, in Sunsari, 26-year-old Bishal Achhami and 38-year-old Biru Limbu were arrested from Inaruwa Municipality-4 with 4.78 grams of a substance suspected to be brown sugar.
In Nawalparasi East, police detained 48-year-old Buddhiram Gurau from Kawasoti Municipality-15 after recovering 1.138 kilograms of marijuana.
Police said further investigations are underway into all the arrests to determine the circumstances surrounding the suspected drug-related offenses.
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