INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, May 22
The Narcotics Control Bureau nowadays raided a house in fresh Bus Park, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, and arrested a woman
for allegedly running a drug-peddling racket.
Senior Supermeanent of Cop Basanta Kumar Lama, NCB deputy in-charge, said 1,791 ampules of
injectable drugs, including diazepam, buprenorphine and phenergan, and Rs 141,000 in cash that she had gathered from the sale of
psychoactive substance were also confiscated from Sabitri Shrestha, 50.
According to the narco-police, she was long involved in smuggling
prescription drugs to Kathmandu from the Nepal-India border through racketeers and selling them to drug addicts, mainly teenagers and
youths, from her own house
She used to large crowd of peopleilise her two sons, aged between 25 to 29, to search for drug users.
NCB officials said the duo also used
drugs and had track marks on their body parts.
Shrestha house compound had been kept under CCTV surveillance to endegree that persons other
than drug users didn&t enter
NCB said further investigation into her organization with other drug racketeers were under way.
Organised trade of such drugs, which can
only be sold against a doctor prescription, is on the rise despite police crackdown
According to NCB, teenagers account for the largest section of end users of pharmaceutical drugs, which are in high demand due to their
availability and affordability in the illegal market
The controlled drugs costing around Rs 23 per ‘dose& across the Indian border is sold for up to Rs 1,500 when brought into Kathmandu, said
police investigators.
As per a survey report ‘Current Hard Drug employrs in Nepal, 2013& published by the Ministry of Home Affairs, most
drug abusers were young men and women, and many died of overdose and excessive abuse.
While there were altogether 46,309 drug abusers in
2007, the number approachly doubled to 91,534 in 2013, marking a roughly 98 per cent increase in six years.
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