The arrested are Khin Bahadur Magar, 48, and Ganga Bahadur Magar of Muksar VDC-1, informed DSP Uma Prasad Chaturbedi of Area Police Office, Lahan.
Acting on a tip-off that smugglers were transporting illegal narcotics to India via Bishnupurkatti, a special squad from Lahan Area Police Office had tracked the smugglers down and detained them with the marijuana.
According to DSP Chaturbedi, the smugglers and police exchanged fire for a while in which smuggler Ganga Magar sustained injuries to his leg. Aside from the narcotics, police have also recovered one US-made automatic pistol, one magazine and its six rounds of bullets, said Chaturbedi.
Of the four, two smugglers managed to escape by opening fires in the sky.
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Lahan police have registered as many as 43 cases against 59 people including three women on narcotics in the last one year.
