Police have confiscated a huge cache of marijuana along with a pistol and bullets from Ajamarpatti in Ekdara Rural Municipality-3 of Mahottarai district.

Police claimed that the market price of the seized marijuana is around Rs 500,000.

A police team deployed under the command of Inspector Birendra Paneru of the District Police Office, Mahottarai raided the house of Chunchun Devi Mandal and confiscated 140 kg marijuana packed in 19 plastic bags.

According to SP Kuber Kadayat, the deployed police team also recovered the pistol and three rounds of bullets from near the house of Kadayat.

Earlier, police had raided the house of Jitendra Kumar Mandal and confiscated 46 kg marijuana packed in 12 plastic bags.

Police said that they also recovered a digital weighing machine and traditional weighing materials from the house of Mandal.