Woman and daughter held for smuggling drugs near Indo-Nepal border

Pilibhit: A 59-year-old woman and her daughter were arrested on Wednesday under the Gangster Act from their home in Bazar Ghat village near the Indo-Nepal border in Pilibhit district. They were accused of supplying drugs from Nepal to various destinations in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand through a network of suppliers and carried a bounty of Rs 25,000 each.
Last year on Aug 22 Palo Kaur and her daughter, Suman Kaur (27), were arrested by a joint team of Pilibhit police and the Sashastra Seema Bal's 49th Battalion along with three accomplices. They were caught purchasing brown sugar from a Nepalese drug smuggler near the Indo-Nepal border. The police seized 34 grams of brown sugar worth over Rs 4.5 lakh in the international market. The accused were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and sent to jail but were released on bail shortly after.
Hazara SHO, Prakash Singh, said that on Oct 8 this year, charges were filed against Palo Kaur, Suman Kaur, her son Laxman Singh (23), her husband Kakka Singh (66), and a Nepalese youth, Deepan Shahi (22), from Kanchanpur district. The investigation revealed that Laxman Singh had formed a gang involving his family and the Nepalese youth to smuggle and distribute drugs from Nepal.
The two women were remanded to judicial custody after being presented before the magistrate. "All members of Laxman's gang have a long criminal history, and multiple cases registered against them. The remaining three accused under the Gangster Act are absconding, and the police are actively searching for them," Singh said.