Drugs worth Rs 22 lakh seized, 5 Nepali citizens held

By AK Rai 11 Apr 2016 Comment Edit

EOI, Siliguri, 10 Apr 2016: The Siliguri Metropolitan police on Saturday night arrested five Nepali nationals from the Pradhan Nagar area on charges of smuggling drugs worth Rs22 lakh.

Acting on a tip-off, officials of the Kolkata-based Narcotics Control Bureau and 66 BSF battalion jawans launched a joint operation and detained the five suspects with a bag full of drugs.

The consignment was en route to Hong Kong through the Pradhan Nagar branch of a national-level courier service, said the police. They said the seizure includes 8.14kg of hashish, 40 grams of brown sugar, 140 grams of meticillin and 280 grams of cocaine.

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