Is an ambulance for transporting marijuana or taking patients to hospitals?

HETAUDA: Nepal is not only a country of cultural and linguistic diversities. It is a nation of some infamous crooks as well, thanks to state’s poor law implementation capacity.

Worse still. An ambulance in the central district of Makawanpur has been seized on Monday night by the police for transporting nearly 150 kgs of marijuana. The ambulance was heading for Birgunj, a town that shares border with India.

Police impounded the vehicle and its driver following a tip-off that it was supplying marijuana to Birgunj.

The vehicle was with the name of Grace Hospital, Chuchhepati of Kathmandu, police confirmed today by organizing a press conference.

Driver Ram Chandra Bhandari of Sindhupalchowk district is detained for further investigations, DSP Shyam Kumar Mahato said.