Man arrested with charas near Indo-Nepal border

A man has been arrested with charas, worth over Rs. 1 crore in the international market, by SSB jawans near Khagra chowki in this Indo-Nepal border district of Uttar Pradesh.

A patrol party of SSB nabbed the 52-year-old man with 8.5 kg of the drug while he was smuggling it into India from Nepal yesterday, SSB 9th battalion commandant, H K Gupta said today.

The seized charas is worth Rs. 1 crore in the international market, the SSB official added.