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PATNA: Police seized 265kg of charas from a pickup van near Balthari checkpost on NH-28 in Gopalganj district on Sunday morning. The consignment kept inside a secret compartment in the van is estimated to be worth Rs50 crore in international market, Kuchaikot police station SHO Ashwani Kumar Tiwari said. Three persons from Nepal, who were travelling in the van, were arrested.
They were identified as Prakash Kumar Kurmi and Vicky Kumar Srivastava of Ranighat and Vinay Kumar Sahni of Madhwal, all in Parsa district of Nepal.
“Police, on receiving intelligence input that a drug consignment is to be smuggled from Nepal via Gopalganj, started strict vehicle checking at several locations in the district,” the SHO said.