Acting on information police was able to nab Ram Bahadur Waiba, 30, of Tistung VDC of same district, who was supposed to sell the drugs during festival-Mahashivaratri in Kathmandu. [break]
Making Waiba public Wednesday, Deputy Inspector General Kedar Saud, head of the bureau, said, “We have arrested many professional drug racketeers in recent months, but Waiba seems to be new in the trade.”
The police laid a trap to nab Wiaba by posing as decoy customers. Waiba arrived to meet the disguised police carrying narcotics in two large wicker baskets pretending as if he was carrying vegetables.
The drugs were packed in round shapes giving them the appearance of cabbages and pumpkins.
The police had struck a deal with Waiba to pay Rs 300,000 for the drugs.
Waiba has confessed to the police that the drugs were prepared at his own farm with some collected from other farmers in the village, according to the police.
Likewise, the bureau, last week, had nabbed an Indian citizen Mohammad Farukh Aalam, 36, of Motihari District of Bihar, from Koteshwor. He has been identified as a major supplier to Nepali drug dealers.
DIG Saud said that they had posed as decoy customers to arrest Aalam as well. The police seized 110 gm of heroin from his possession.
Narcotics Control Bureau had not witnessed any incidents of trafficking pharmaceutical drugs along long routes for quite a while.
“But with the arrest of Prakash Sunar, 25, of Dodhara VDC of Kanchanpur, we are surprised at how traffickers are still using the long routes,” DIG Saud said.
Sunar was carrying 820 ampoule of Buprenorphine and 720 ampoule of Diazepam in order to sell the drugs in Kathmandu. He had confessed that he had bought the drugs from Indian border. We will increase surveillance to prevent drug traffickers from using new routes, DIG Saud said.
The bureau has claimed that in the last week alone it has seized hard and controlled drugs worth Rs 4.2 million.
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