Indian cops arrested with contraband drugs in Nepal

Indian cops arrested with contraband drugs in Nepal Nepalnews.com Monday, 31 May 2010 15:09 Nepal Police arrested two Indian policemen with significant amount of hashish in Krishnanagar of Kapilvastu district on Monday. The Indian cops have been identified as Indraman Raya and Umesh Yadav, both constables at Badhani Police station in Siddhanagar, India. Police found 700 gms of the contraband drug in their possession while they were heading towards India in a motorcycle registered in India. The duo are currently being held at the Area Police Office in Krishnagar, a Nepali town bordering India. Meanwhile, a report in today's edition of the Kathmandu Post said that presence of large number of Indian ambulances on highways and city areas in the Terai region has led many to doubt if these vehicles are actually ferrying sick to hospitals as meant. The report quoted a source as saying that the Indian ambulances are being used by criminals to smuggle contrabands as they are allowed to ply freely without being checked or probed by authorities * http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/19-general/6455-indian-cops-arrested-with-contraband-drugs.html#josc59523 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is the criminal? Dear Nepal. This is Your greatest cultural heritage and the root of Your culture. A precious gift presented from Your very own highly beloved God Shivaji thousands of years ago, but by the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act of 1976 and by an undemocratic elected government, who was promised a new world with development aid/loan,- alcohol on licence and a soon future with wealth, no illiteracy, sickness and a life in peace and harmony by UN, to make a non-democratic elected referendum decision to criminalize an essential and a thousand of years daily wide used marijuana plant. Nepal, You lost Your entity and the possibility of a huge exportable income to benefit Your people and the rest of the world. * the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act of 1976: https://www.imolin.org/amlid/showLaw.do?law=6023&language=ENG&country=NEP --------------------------------------------------------------------- Police destroy marijuana in Nepal Post Report 2000 MAHOTTARI, Dec 11 - Police engaged in wiping out marijuana crops across this district have been working for the last 15 days with no extra incentives or allowances. ASI Padam Lama said that the effort of continuously cutting down marijuana has made many of them ill, but they cannot take respite from their work. The local people do not extend their cooperation at all, he added. Police staff stationed outside the district headquarters are all under instruction to go to farmers field and destroy their marijuana crop, although many of them are suffering as a result. In contact with the marijuana plant all day long, police personnel complain of headaches and colds, chapped skin and loss of appetite. Despite this they are accused of being biased. Farmers have alleged that members of the police staff destroy certain marijuana crops, while they overlook crops belonging to wealthy farmers on receipt of bribes. Police admit that this charge is partially true. Some kind farmers provide them with refreshments as they work in the fields and request them to save their crop. On condition of anonymity, one police official said "It is during these moments that we are moved more by human compassion than our duty and we cannot destroy their marijuana plants." Police claim that marijuana crop grown on 140 bighas out of the total one thousand bighas has been destroyed so far in this district. They claim that it is impossible for them to wipe out the entire marijuana crop in the district even over a six-month period. Regarding the charge levelled against the police that they overlook marijuana crops of farmers in many villages, police admitted that they have yet to destroy the crop in many VDCs but they rejected the charge that they had received bribes. "Our first target was Laxminiya VDC in this area. After we finish our work here we will continue our work in other VDCs," Police Inspector in Gaushala Ilaka Police Office Dinesh Chapagain said. However, police personnel engaged in destroying the marijuana crop in the district admit that work had slackened to a great extent and that the campaign will be unable to completely eradicate marijuana from this area if other methods are not employed. SP Hari Bahadur Thapa said this was only a police reformatory programme aimed at eradicating marijuana. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nepal thrives as regional drug hub Extract from article of: NARESH NEWAR 05/31/04 According to Nepal law, the penalty for those caught with over 100g of heroin is 15-20 years of imprisonment including a fine of up to Rs 2.5 million. Those with over 10kg of hashish face a maximum of 10 years in prison with a Rs 100,000 fine. “Most of the time, smugglers with powerful connections and money are in prison for shorter periods, if at all,” a police officer told us. The only foreigners serving longterm sentences in Nepal’s Central Jail are those without international drug syndicate connections. In the last 12 years, about 105 foreign nationals from Romania, France, Germany, Russia, Israel, Poland, Burma, Nigeria, Austria, China, India, Japan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the UK, Malawi and Canada were arrested. The most notorious among them are already free or serving light sentences. As of now, only 58 are languishing at different jails in the Valley. Nepal may not be as important a hub for drug traffickers as Indonesia, Thailand, India, Pakistan or Burma, but it is an up-and-coming conduit. Anti-narcotics agents say Nepal is still primarily a channel for drug flow out of India, Pakistan and Burma to Southeast Asia. But Nepal is also the source for high grade Nepali hashish which is reportedly in great demand in Europe. Hashish was legal here until the Nepal government was forced by the United States to pass the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act of 1976. The law just deprived poor farmers of a cash crop, and drove the trade into the hands of the drug mafia. * Nepal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal * Shiva: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva * The Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act of 1976: https://www.imolin.org/amlid/showLaw.do?law=6023&language=ENG&country=NEP