Following a tip-off, a team of Narcotic Drugs Control Bureau, New Baneshwar arrested truck driver Ram Kumar Thapa, 25 and Raj Kumar Giri, 35 of Manahari-7, Makawanpur district. According to SSP Rana Bahadur Chand, the deputy chief of the bureau, the two were arrested while trying to smuggle the hashish out of Kathmandu Valley using a truck with fake number plate.
According to SSP Chand they had wrapped the hashish with duct tape in 75 balls and hid them in the truck. The smugglers used a fake number plate Na 2 Kha 8029 but later it was revealed that the real number of the truck was Na 3 Kha 8336.
The two have however said they did not have any information that the hashish had been hidden in the truck.
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