The District Police Office has arrested two persons with brown heroin (brown sugar). Police have seized both the drivers after finding gray heroin in the two trucks.
JHAPA, August 18: Police have arrested six people in possession of brown sugar weighing 27.7 grams from Birtamod Municipality in Jhapa district.
Different police teams arrested them from different areas of the municipality.
A team from the Area Police Office, Anarmani held two women identified as Devi Tamang of Birtamod-1 and Sita Khatiwada of Birtamod-5 along with 4.4 grams brown sugar. The police also seized a digital weighing machine and two sets mobile phones, said Rakesh Thapa, spokesperson for the district police office, Jhapa.
Similarly, four others were arrested in possession of 23.3 grams brown sugar from Birtamod-5. The arrestees have been identified as Ratan Rajbamshi and Suraj Chaudhary, both of Birtamod-5, Manoj Chaudhary of Arjundhara-5 and Suman Tamang of Birtamod-5.
The police also confiscated a motorcycle (Me 2 Pa 8686) from them. Investigations were underway, said the police.
Likewise, two were arrested in illegal possession of 900 strips of nitravet tablets from Golbazaar Municipality-3 in Siraha district. The arrestees have been identified as Pramod Kumar Yadav of Bariyarpatti Rural Municipality-3 and Dhanjit Yadav of Sukhipur Municipality-10. The police also confiscated one on-test pulsar motorcycle, two sets of mobile phones and Rs 3,346 from them.
BHADRAPUR, August 8:Police have arrested an Indian national in possession of brown sugar. Shravan Roy, 28, of Totapada in West Bengal, India was arrested with 21.26 grams of brown sugar from Kichchakbad in Bhadrapur municipality-3 on Saturday, said spokesperson of the District Police Office, Jhapa, DSP Rakesh Thapa.
He said that a joint team from District Police Office, Jhapa and Border Police Post, Prithvinagar arrested him with the banned narcotics.
Meanwhile, police have arrested Khemraj Kunwar, 24, of Bhadrapur-3 in possession of banned drugs from Hatimara on Saturday.
Both the arrested persons were taken to the District Police Office, Jhapa for necessary action and further investigation, DSP Thapa said.
KARNALI, June 6: The District Police Office, Surkhet has arrested four persons in possession of brown sugar. The four were arrested from Birendranagar, Surkhet.
During a search, police recovered 7.4 grams of brown sugar from Bishnu Devi Shahi, 52, running a hotel at Birendranagar municipality-6, Saru Shahi,21, of Gurans rural municipality-5, Dailekh, Gaurav Chettri and Pradip Khatri of Birendranagar municipality, according to the District Police Office, Surkhet.
Police also recovered other banned drugs and Rs. 508,200 in cash from them. Further investigation is underway.
In a similar incident in Kanchanpur, police arrested an Indian national in possession of 11.87 grams of brown sugar. Aman Chand,21, of Uttarakhand, India was arrested with 11.87 grams of the banned narcotics, according to District Police Office, Kanchanpur.
