KATHMANDU: Police have arrested 10 people across various districts for possession of illegal drugs. Among those detained are two Indian women arrested at Tribhuvan International Airport with 14 kilograms of marijuana.
The women, identified as 46-year-old Sheikh Shabanabanu Yar Mahammad and 35-year-old Ansari Sharifa Abbas from Gujarat, India, were apprehended outside the airport arrival area after arriving on a Malaysian Batik Air flight.
In Kathmandu, authorities arrested 21-year-old Umesh Magar of Lalitpur and 27-year-old Milan Mishra of Dhankuta with 90 tablets of the controlled drug Tramadol in Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-4. The arrests were made by a team from the Thali Police Division on Monday night.
In Siraha, police seized 6.27 kilograms of marijuana from 41-year-old Shiva Shankar Sah in Dhangadhimai Municipality-10. Additionally, 56-year-old Jhanak Bahadur Thakuri was arrested in the same municipality with 16 kilograms of a substance suspected to be marijuana.
In Kanchanpur, 24-year-old driver Ashis Luhar was arrested in Bhimdutta Municipality-4 with 2.62 grams of a substance suspected to be brown heroin during a vehicle inspection. Meanwhile, in Sunsari, 26-year-old Bishal Achhami and 38-year-old Biru Limbu were taken into custody in Inaruwa Municipality-4 with 4.78 grams of a substance suspected to be brown sugar.
Finally, in Nawalparasi East, 48-year-old Buddhiram Gurau was arrested in Kawasoti Municipality-15 with 1.138 kilograms of marijuana. Authorities have initiated further investigations into all the arrested individuals.
