Two arrested with brown sugar from border area

8 Sept, Kanchanpur : The Armed Police Force on Monday busted two youths with banned drugs, brown sugar, from no-man’s land along the Nepal-India border in Belauri municipality-10 of Kanchanpur.

The team headed by APF Inspector of Border Outpost Bhuda Govinda Thapa arrested two with a gram of brown sugar on Monday evening. The arrested are Prithvi Dagaura, 29, and Suresh Rana Chaudhary, 30, of Bedkot municipality-9, Sundarpur, said APF Superintendent of Police (SP) Birendra Bahadur Ayer.

APF team found Indians throwing brown sugar with soil packed in plastic to no-man’s land along the border. In a security screening along the border, police recovered brown sugar from Dagaura and Chaudhary.

A process has been initiated to hand over the arrestees with brown sugar to the Nepal Police. Meanwhile, the body of Prince Sunar, 18, of Mahakali municipality-9 was found after five days he was drowned in the Mahakali River. A team of the Nepal Army recovered the body of Sunar who went missing in the river while taking a bath.