Siddharthnagar, 12

May (HS): A joint team of local police, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Customs

arrested a Nepali citizen on Tuesday at the Kakarhawa check post located on the

India-Nepal border in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Eighteen fake

passports were recovered from him. Kakarhawa check post in-charge Pradeep Kumar

Singh said that a joint team of local police, Sashastra Seema Bal and Customs

unit Kakarhawa arrested a Nepali citizen from the Kakarhawa check post. During

interrogation, he told his name as Jalandhar Dhami, resident of village Haripur

in Sar Lai district of Nepal. During the search, the team recovered 16 Bangladeshi

and two Nepali fake passports from him. The Nepali citizen is being

interrogated after informing the higher authorities in the matter.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi