Satish Aditya
Raxaul (Bihar) : The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel headed by Sub-Inspector (SI) Dayanand Kushawaha, on a tip off, stopped a car coming from 348 pillar side located on no man’s land on Indo-Nepal border near Gurhenwa roundabout under Kundawa-Chainpur police station (PS) in East Champaran District in North Bihar on June 27, 2021, evening, and seized 8 China made Drone and Cameras and arrested 3 occupants of the car.
The Drones and ameras were packed in 8 cartons and were being smuggled through open border from Nepal to into Bihar. Chinese Drones have been seized for the first time by any security agency on this border.
SI, SSB, Dayanand Kushwaha, of 20 Battalion, posted at Guabari border out post (BOP) on porous Indo-Nepal border, said that he along with SSB personnel was busy checking of vehicles on Gurhenwa – Dhaka road and the China made Drones were seized from a car bearing Bihar registration number. Three persons were arrested from the car who were latter identified as Vicky Kumar of Bairganiya in Sitamarhi District in North Bihar, Rahul Kumar and Krishnandan Kumar of Kundawa Chainpur in East Chamran. They were quizzed by SSB officials and handed over to Kundawa Chainpur PS for necessary action.
SHO, Kundawa Chainpur PS, Mithilesh Kumar, said that a case of smuggling has been instituted against three arrested persons and they have been remanded to judicial custody.
An SSB sleuth of 47 Battalion, on the other hand, seized Charas worth Rs 2.5 crore on Bypass road at Raxaul in East Champaran District on June 26, 2021, and arrested one Shamir Sheikh of Raxaul, who was carrying this narcotics, to deliver it to another smuggler of Uttar Pradesh.
Smuggling of contraband items from Nepal into India through the 726 km long porous border has become quite rampant flood and lockdown restrictions notwithstanding. Charas , Heroine, Ganja, Foodgrains, Fertilisers, and even diesel and petrol, wood logs are being smuggledinto Bihar by gang of smugglers. Talking to this scribe, a senior n SSB official said that it is not practically possible to completely check smuggling through the border because it is open border, The SSB of India and Armed Force of Nepal have jointly launched patrolling on the border to check smuggling.