Himalayan News Service

Biratnagar, May 14:

A security official in India has claimed that the cadres of CPN-Maoists are engaged in drug smuggling to make up for the financial crisis in their party.

DIG of Sima Suraksha Bal (SSB) of India, Hemchandra Khagrawal, said this while addressing a press conference organised by the Eastern Regional Police Office (ERPO) in Biratnagar today.

A study has suggested that the Maoists need a lot of money to buy arms and, therefore, they are involved in supplying of narcotics, DIG Khagrawal said.

One kilogram of the narcotics can fetch them as much as five million rupees and this may be a source of income for the party, he added.