KATHMANDU: As many as three persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in smuggling arms and ammunition to Kathmandu of late, the Metropolitan Crime Division (MCD) said, on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a sleuth deployed from the MCD arrested Devendra Bhandari, 35, and Manoj Basnet, 47, both hailing from Balkhu in KMC-14 and Suman Khadka, 50, of Chobar in Kirtipur Municipality-6, from Balkhu area this afternoon, MCD said in the statement. Police intercepted a jeep (Ba 17 Cha 8364) carrying all three alleged arms smugglers and subsequently apprehended them, today. After a preliminary investigation, police raided Suman Khadka house in Kiritpur and recovered a US-made pistol, it magazine and four rounds of live bullets hidden under bricks inside the compound. Meanwhile, an investigation is underway. The post Three held with illegal arms in Kathmandu appeared first on The Himalayan Times.
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