Eight individuals including one Indian national have been caught with a huge cache of contraband drugs from Pokhara on Thursday.

A team of Narcotics Control Bureau Pokhara arrested the individuals from Prithvichowk in the area along with 500 Morphine, 500 ampoules of diazepam and 500 phenergan, informed Police Inspector Rabindra Gurung.

The arrested persons have been identified as Shiva Kumar Nisha of Sant Kabirnagar at Bafargunj district, India, Ajay Shahi of Putalibazar, Syangja, Indra Prasad Gurung, Dipen Chhetri, Samrat Rana of Pokhara, Eliya Tamang, Kalyan Tamang of Dhading and Mekh Bahadur Gurung of Shuklagandaki, Tanahun.

Of them, Nisha and Shahi had smuggled the drugs to Nepal from India while the remaining others were buyers, sellers and users of the contraband.