Kathmandu : Siraha police have arrested six people on Sunday along with the drug brown sugar.
According to Siraha Police Spokesperson Binod Ghimire, they were arrested along with 1 gram and 2 milligrams of brown sugar while hiding in the house of Pandav Gupta at Golbazar Municipality, Ward No. 6, Dohatiya.
Ghimire said that a team from the Area Police Office, Golabazar, arrested six people, including Gupta, 28, on the basis of confidential information that Gupta was hiding drugs in his house.
The arrested are Suraj Pariyar, 22, Roshan Lama, 20, Shiril Mahara, 19, Saifali Khan, 20, of Ward No. 4 and Vivek Shrestha, 19, of Ward No. 5.
Police spokesperson Ghimire said that five of the arrested youths were involved in drug trafficking and consumption.