Indian drug peddler nabbed in Nepal

Madan Kumar of New Delhi was arrested from Kathmandu with 690 gm of brown sugar.

An Indian drug peddler was arrested in Nepal for hawking heroin. Twenty-eight-year-old Madan Kumar, who hails from New Delhi, was arrested from Kathmandu by cops from the Narcotics Drugs Law Enforcement unit with 690 gm of brown sugar in his possession as well as measuring scales, police said.

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Police had been watching Kumar for a long time. They believe he had been selling heroin in Nepal for about seven years, smuggling it in from New Delhi.

Five other drug pushers were arrested from different areas in Kathmandu the same day.

The five, all of them Nepalese, were caught with either heroin or hashish in their possession.

The open border between India and Nepal, police say, is used by drug smugglers to bring narcotics from India.

In the 60s and 70s, the age of pot-smoking hippies, Nepal was considered a haven for hashish and opium. But now, low-grade heroin from India is flooding the Himalayan kingdom, officers say. Nepalese are reportedly being used more and more to smuggle out heroin to South Asia and Europe as part of international chains operating from India and Nepal.

--Indo-Asian News Service

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