KATHMANDU, AUGUST 3
Narcotics Control Bureau of Nepal Police has arrested 22 people for operating a drug racket from different places inside Kathmandu valley during its intensive crackdown lasting nearly 20 days.
The NCB arrested 18 men and four women in a covert operation conducted between July 16 to August 3. The arrested have been accused of smuggling various pharmaceutical drugs and other psychedelic substance such as heroin. Police also confiscated large cache of such drugs whose estimated market value is nearly Rs six million.
Acting on a tip off, police first arrested Tulasa Khadka, 33, of Taplejung from her temporary address at Imadol of Lalitpur on July 5 . Police confiscated more than 1,250 tablets of pharmaceutical drugs called nitravat, 150 capsules of proxivan, six tablets of dilex DC and 300 millilitres of codeine-like liquid. Following her arrest, police succeeded in nabbing Buddha Bamjan, 35, of Sarlahi's Hariwan, a temporary resident of Besigaun, Jorpati, who supplied drugs to Khadka, and her accomplice Yuvraj Khadka, 27, of Imadol.
Following their arrest, police arrested seven more people for trafficking pharmaceutical drugs that are often misused by youths. Similarly, the same mission helped the NCB bust another drug racket that had been supplying psychedelic contraband amongst youngsters. Junmai Moktan, 40, of Ramechhap Municipality was first arrested with 384 grams of heroin on July 29. Police later arrested 12 more people, including three women from different places of Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Kathmandu.
NCB's chief Senior Superintendent of Police Bikas Khanal said 459 grams of heroin, 1,080 bottles of Dilex DC, 1,260 tablets of nitravet and 150 capsules of proxivan had been recovered from the arrested persons. All the accused were made public today at the NCB's office in Koteshwor. The NCB's big success was supported by its earlier mission where an African and an Indian citizen were arrested with four kg heroin from Tilganga on July 17.
A version of this article appears in the print on August 4, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
