Bettiah (Bihar): Police today arrested a
man along with charas worth Rs 1 crore from the Indo-Nepal
border in Bihar's West Champaran district.
Acting on a tip-off, the police nabbed the smuggler
while carrying out a search operation in a bus in the area
under the jurisdiction of Shikarpur police station, a police
officer said.
The smuggler was working as a carrier and assigned the
job of taking the contraband to Narkatiyaganj railway station,
Narkatiyaganj Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Aman Kumar
said.
During interrogation, he revealed that according to
his handler's directive, the said consignment was supposed to
be kept in a bogey of Saptakranti Express at the railway
station, the police officer added.
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