3 people arrested for trying to smuggle hashish to India
Press Trust of India Kathmandu Nepali police have arrested three persons for trying to smuggle 20 kilogrammes of hashish to India in a southern town near the Indian border.
The three persons were arrested from Nayabuspark area in Birgunj, a southern Nepal town bordering Raxaul of India on charges of smuggling, a police official said.
A senior police official said that the three people were arrested along with the contraband drug brought from Makwanpur and were heading towards Raxaul.
Nepal has become a transit point for international drug smugglers with more and more cases of smuggling being reported recently.