KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 17
Ten 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.
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, of The Himalayan Times.
