Udayapur: 7,826 kg of cannabis seized from truck

The Intelligence Bureau of the Armed Police Force, Nepal, has seized a large quantity of banned cannabis from Udayapur.

Acting on specific information from the bureau, an Armed Police Force team recovered 7,826 kg and 800 grams of cannabis that was being transported by truck from the Belka Municipality area of Udayapur on Sunday evening, Kartik 15.

The seized cannabis weighs more than seven and a half thousand kilograms. The Armed Police Force has described the seizure as a large-quantity haul.

The government had earlier said it was tightening monitoring and security arrangements to control unwanted activities in border areas, and that the Armed Police Force had accordingly intensified enforcement action.