Kathmandu : A police squad detained drug peddlers in Tokha of Kathmandu after firing at them in retaliation. Acting on a tip off about perpetual transaction of drugs, brown sugar, in Kathmandu, the police team caught two suspected persons from Sundhara road in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-11 at 2.00 pm today in course of the search.
The police team used the latter to reach to the place near Grande Hospital where drug peddlers were said to be hiding. After obtaining information from the arrested that the peddlers possess drugs, the bureau team reached there at 3.15 pm this afternoon. Bureau Spokesperson, Superintendent of Police (SP), Janak Bahadur Shahi informed that the police team was compelled to open fire when the two bounced on the police with iron rod in course of arresting them.
Senior constable Nawaraj Ghising and assistant constable Rabindra KC were injured in the attack. The police fired four rounds of blank fire in an attempt to detain the drug dealers. He said the police had to open fire to take them control them when they continued assaulting on police even despite the blank fire.
Among those arrested are 20-year-old Sumit Kumar from Danpur, 25-year-old Chandan Kumar Jaiswal from the same place, 40-year-old Shasik Alam from West Bengal, India, and 22-year-old Mohammad Manzoor Alam from Bihar.
The police reported that both Alams, who were shot and caught, have gunshot wounds in their left leg. It was reported that 200 grams of brown heroin was recovered from at Tokha Municipality-3.
