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Rs 50,000 kickback to release 20 kg marijuana



KATHMANDU: Dharan Police arrested four people for their involvement in the smuggling of marijuana.

The arrested are 23-year-old Bijaya Rai and Madan Rai alias Aite Rai of Shahidbhumi Rural Municipality, Dhankuta, Nar Bahadur Rai, 35, of Pakhribas Municipality, Dhankuta and Raj Kumar Sah, 36, of Biratnagar Metropolitan City-13, said DSP Suman Kumar Timsina of Area Police Office, Dharan.

Timsina further shared that the police also arrested Sah for trying to bribe police with Rs 50,000 to release the arrested with the marijuana.

Police intercepted them with the contraband at Shivdhara in Dharan while they were heading to Dharan from Dhankuta in a tempo.

 

Publish Date : 09 April 2019 09:39 AM

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