Drug smuggling

Nepal border turns hub of drug smuggling

While infiltration and cattle smuggling plague India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively, it’s the 1,751-km border with Nepal that has become the hub for smuggling drugs, weapons and fertilizers, besides human trafficking, data showed.

The India-Pakistan border in Kashmir saw 155 terrorist incidents between October and March, home ministry data showed, with 43 infiltration attempts till February 2017 alone.

In 2016, the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar police and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) which patrol the Indo-Nepal border, arrested 267 people for smuggling drugs and narcotics; 46 for smuggling weapons and 77 for smuggling 70,650 kg of fertilizer, data showed.