KAPILVASTU May 22: Two people have been arrested from Krishnanagar Municipality-2, Kapilvastu, along with Rs 500,000 Indian currency. They were caught while they were trying to get away after colliding with a tractor. 

At the intersection in Taulihawa that leads to Bahadurganj, a motorcycle (Lu 76 Pa 857) coming from Bahadurganj and a tractor (Lu 2 Ta 5121) coming from Taulihawa collided with each other. 

While on the motorcycle after eating at a Biryani shop at Bahadurganj chowk, the two arrestees felt like they were being followed and panicked. As a result, they crashed into the tractor. The two on the bike got injured in the incident. 

A team deployed from the Ward Police Office raced to the scene to rescue the injured motorcyclist Manoj Gupta, 35, of Krishnanagar Municipality-9, and passenger, Somnath Chauhan, 44, of Krishnanagar Municipality-3.

DSP Min Bahadur Ghale said that the police noticed Gupta and Chauhan’s suspicious behavior and soon recovered five hundred thousand Indian Currency stowed in a yellow plastic bag on the motorcycle’s leg-guard. 

 
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