Police Shoot Suspects in Heroin Bust in Lalitpur

Kathmandu. Police have opened fire on those involved in brown heroin trafficking in Balkumari, Lalitpur. SSP Subash Bohora of the Narcotics Control Bureau told Ratopati that 3 traffickers were taken under control by firing shots. One person was injured in the police firing. The injured has been identified as Kishore Prasad Ojha, 39, from Parsa's Paterwa Suguali Rural Municipality-4. He sustained a gunshot wound to his right leg. Police fired 3 rounds to control him under the Balkumari bridge towards Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32, bordering Lalitpur and Kathmandu. The Bureau's team had fired 2 rounds in the air. Police have also arrested Ashok Bhul, 25, from Kailali, and Niraj Kumar Mandal, 18, from Saptari's Rajgadh Rural Municipality-3, involved in drug trafficking. Police recovered 302 grams of brown heroin from Mandal. Ojha, who was injured in the firing, has been sent to the hospital for treatment. Investigating officers say Ojha is the main person who ordered brown heroin. He was arrested from Thankot and jailed on Poush 3, 2079, in a Nitrovat drug case. Police investigation revealed that after being released from jail on Poush 17, 2082, after serving 3 years, he became involved in drug trafficking again. Ashok, who had gone to Balkumari to receive the brown heroin, fled upon seeing the police. The Bureau's team arrested him from Buddhanagar in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-10.