Kathmandu, July 30
Cases related to drug trafficking have increased across the country.
According to the information provided by Nepal Police Headquarters, the cases related to drug trafficking have increased in the fiscal 2018/19 in comparison to the previous year.
The previous fiscal year had witnessed total 3,088 cases while it was 3,357 in the recently concluded fiscal year.
DIG Bishwa Raj Pokharel, Nepal Police spokesperson, says the incidents of drug abuse and trafficking have been exposed with the rise in police crackdown. He also views that the open border with India also amounts to a lost of such cases.
Nepal Police had established a drug control bureau to emphatically work to lessen drug abuse and trafficking.
As of now, the bureau has arrested and registered cases against 2,518 people, including 96 foreigners since its establishment eight years ago, shares DSP Gautam Thapa.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has devised several programmes to reduce the drug trafficking rate. Drugs such as marijuana and opium are being massively produced in mountainous and interior Madhes, Thapa says, urging the local people’s activism to reduce the crime.
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