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Computer engineer held with pistol being smuggled from India to Nepal

Computer engineer held with pistol being smuggled from India to Nepal

By Byas Shankar Upadhyaya

Police making public the suspect, an automatic pistol and other items at the Saptari District Police Office on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Photo: Shyam Sundar Yadav

RAJBIRAJ: Nepal Police arrested a computer engineer in possession of an automatic pistol from Bishnupur Chok in Saptari district on Tuesday. Police said they had received a tip-off that lethal weapon was being smuggled in from India via Rajbiraj-Sakhada road. The suspect has been identified as Bipin Kumar Jha (23), a resident of Brahamapur VDC in the district. According to the District Police Office, Saptari, they found the pistol from motorcycle-borne Jha's possession, when he was intercepted by the security personnel at Bishnupur. According to DSP Dan Bahadur Karki, Jha has been taken in custody for further investigation.