KATHMANDU: Police have arrested two Indian nationals in possession of 75 grams of suspected brown sugar while they were travelling to Kathmandu from the eastern border point of Kakarbhitta.
The arrests were made on Saturday during a routine security inspection at the Nagdhunga checkpoint in Chandragiri Municipality–2.
The detainees have been identified as 34-year-old Mona Rai and 26-year-old Pankaj Bose, both residents of Champasari in Siliguri, Darjeeling district of India.
According to police, they were travelling on a passenger bus (Ba Pra 03-001 Kha 5304) heading to Kathmandu from Kakarbhitta.
During a search conducted on suspicion, police recovered a sticky substance resembling brown sugar weighing 75 grams that had allegedly been concealed by the suspects.
The Kathmandu District Police Range said the seized substance is preliminarily believed to be the banned narcotic brown sugar.
The recovered material has been sent for testing, and further investigation has been initiated against both individuals under drug-related offences, police said.
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