Kathmandu, April 30
Police arrested 11 persons with drugs from different places of Kathmandu valley yesterday.
Metropolitan Police Office raided a Chhauni-based restaurant and held six persons. Those arrested are Saroj Silwal, 36, Sujan Tamang, 19, Dipendra Shrestha, 42, Anil Bhujel, 32, Ranjeet Tiwari, 43, and Navin Manandhar, 39, of Kathmandu.
Police said 744 grams of amphetamines, a scooter, Rs 176,000 in cash, 45 pipes used for consuming the drug and a digital weighing machine were confiscated from them. Police had raided the restaurant acting on tip-off that it had been a drug haven for peddlers and users.
In a separate operation, police arrested Prabesh Malla,18, of Dhading, Santosh Tamang,18, of Makwanpur and Sujan Gurung,19, of Nuwakot with 600 tablets of nitrazepam from Lainchaur area. Police said they were found to have involved in drug peddling.
In yet another incident, police arrested Saroj Khadka, 24, of Ramechhap with psychoactive substances from Sanothimi, Bhaktapur Municipality-2. Forty tablets of nitrazepam were seized from his possession. Also Suresh Karki, 35, of Bhaktapur, was arrested with 10 ampules of diazepam, an injectable prescription drug from Duwakot. Police said all the arrestees were charged under the Narcotics Drug (Control and Punishment) Act.
