Two persons have been arrested with drugs including brown sugar from Dhuliabit in Surkhet Birendranagar Municipality-11, the capital of Karnali.
The arrested are Sakil Mohammad, 30, of Banke in Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolis-5 and Manu Khan, 24, of the same ward, said Hira Bahadur Pandey, spokesperson of Karnali State Police Office, Surkhet.
A joint police team deployed by the District Police Office, Surkhet and Karnali State Police Office Bureau arrested the suspects after finding brown sugar and nitrovet (drugs) on a motorcycle heading towards Surkhet from Nepalgunj today.
A spokesman for Pandey said that seven tablets of nitrovet, a brown sugar-like substance wrapped in two bags of plastic, were recovered from the motorcyclist Mohammad and Khan on the back of the same motorcycle. Surkhet police said that they have started further investigation into the incident.
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