KATHMANDU, March 23 -- Police, on Friday morning, arrested one Indian national from Dhading on the charge of smuggling 164 kilograms of hashish from Kathmandu to India using a truck with Indian number plate.

Acting on a special tip-off, joint force of police officials from the District Police Office (DPO), Dhading, and Area Police Office (APO), Gajuri, intercepted the truck (UP-19T 5171) at about 4 am from Gajuri Rural Municipality-1, Gajuri bazaar while it was plying the Prithvi Highway en route to Uttar Pradesh of India from Kathmandu.

Upon inspection of the vehicle, the police team led by inspector Bhola Man Singh and inspector Navraj Dhungel found eight polythene sacks full of hashish hidden in a secretly built false ceiling in the ...