Indian Drug Trafficker Arrested in Rupandehi After Police Firing

Butwal. Rupandehi District Police Office has started an investigation into the Indian drug trafficker arrested after police retaliatory firing in Rupandehi.

On Friday afternoon, the Bureau of Narcotics Control team took into control an approximately 50-year-old Iqbal Khan, a resident of Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India, near Guwaniya Chowk in Mayadevi Rural Municipality-5, with brown sugar, a pistol, and two rounds of bullets.

According to the police, during the arrest, Khan pointed a pistol at the police and obstructed their work, after which the police fired in self-defense. During the firing, he was shot in the calf of his left leg.

The police stated that Khan, who was injured, was discharged from the hospital after treatment. Currently, he is being held in the Rupandehi District Police Office's custody, and further investigation into drugs, illegal weapons, and the incident is underway, informed DSP Krishna Kumar Chand, spokesperson for the District Police Office Rupandehi, to Ratopati.