ITAHARI, Dec 23: As the number of drug users and smugglers are increasing, drug smuggling business is also flourishing currently. While the drug trade is booming, those involved in trafficking have resorted to various methods of smuggling and selling these drugs.
Itahari police have arrested a woman selling drugs through a tea shop and filed a case against her.
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Police have arrested 65-year-old Tulsa Shrestha, who was running a tea shop near the road of the former bus stand at Itahari Ward No 4. Shrestha, who has been running a tea shop in Itahari for the past few years, came to the notice of the police. When the police searched her sweater, they found one gram 44 mg of grey heroin, according to Police Inspector Ganesh Prasad Bhattarai.
The preliminary investigation by the police has revealed that she has been selling drugs for a long time. "Even though she claimed that someone else had asked her to keep the drugs, as there was no sufficient proof to prove it and due to her suspicious activities, we came to know that she has been selling drugs for a long time," said Inspector Bhattarai.
In the last two years, it has been revealed that women have been used as a tool in drug smuggling business in Itahari. Likewise, Sunsari is the second largest district after Kathmandu in terms of drug users.
