Absconding smuggler in police net

Kathmandu, February 18

The Narcotics Control Bureau has arrested a person for his alleged involvement in smuggling of hashish to India from Kathmandu.

Santa Bahadur Tamang (33), a permanent resident of Bungtang-9 of Nuwakot district, currently residing in Budhanilakantha Municipality of Kathmandu district, was involved in drug smuggling for long, police said.

Tamang was nabbed by a team deployed from the NCB from Ananmnagar yesterday.

Earlier on August 25 last year, police had arrested Sub Bahadur Tamang aka Ashok from the Tribhuvan International Airport in possession of 5.5 kg hashish.

He was sending the contraband to India on a Jet Airways flight, according to police.

During interrogation, Sub Bahadur had informed police that Santa Bahadur had sent the hashish with him.

The next day, Indian police had seized 5.6 kg hashish from New Delhi allegedly smuggled by the same person.