KATHMANDU: A team of Nepal Police arrested a youth in possession of three kilogram of hashish from Dharke of Dhading district on Monday.

Police identified the suspected drug smuggler as 25-year-old Phulman Gole of Tistung, Makawanpur.

According to police, he was heading to Kathmandu boarding a microbus from Makawanpur when he was rounded up from Dharke along the Prithvi Highway during a security check.