Charas worth ₹3 cr recovered near Indo-Nepal border

The team immediately arrested the man who was identified as Rachha Ram, a resident of Nidhi Nagar, under the Rupaideha police station area.

A joint team of the SSB and Rupaideha police arrested a drug smuggler and recovered 7.3 kg charas (cannabis) worth ₹3 crore near the Indo-Nepal border, said the police on Monday.

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Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Prashant Kumar Verma said that acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Rupaideha police and the SSB led by sub-inspector Krishna Kumar Singh and SSB’s assistant commandant Jayant Kumar Das, carried out a search operation near Pachpakdi village on Sunday evening.

The team recovered 3.7 kg Charas worth ₹3 crore from a smuggler during the operation. The team immediately arrested the man who was identified as Rachha Ram, a resident of Nidhi Nagar, under the Rupaideha police station area.

The SSP said that a case under section 8/20 of the NDPS Act has been registered against the man.