State police along with their counter-parts in Nepal would make a joint operation on Indo-Nepal border to check smuggling of drugs, wildlife items, poaching and influx of militants etc.
A joint strategy to successfully lunch an operation has been discussed between the officers of the two sides under the leadership of director general of police, Al Banerjee here at DGP office on Wednesday afternoon.
Giving details of the meeting here on Wednesday evening, IG (law and Order) Amrendra Sengar, claimed that they decided that the Nepal police along with sleuths of the STF would made a joint search operation and help each other in smuggling of several prohibited items which mainly included counterfeit notes, arms and ammunitions, explosives, drugs, animal skins and other wildlife items besides checking influx of militants. He claimed that the Nepal police sought help in smuggling of banned medicines which were smuggled from UP and Bihar to Nepal in large quantity. The Nepal police also sought help in smuggling of country made arms from Bihar.
The officers from Nepal included IG, Upendra Kant Aryal, DIG (Crime) Surendra Shah, DIG (Training) Ganesh Raj Rai, SSP (Special Bureau) Devendra, SSP (Counsellor Embassy of Nepal) Rajendra Man Shresta, and senior officer of Ministry of Home Affairs of Nepal, Suresh Acharya. From UP side, IG (Special Task Force) Asheesh Gupta, IG (law and order) Amrendra Sengar, SP (law and Order) lR Kumar, SSP STF, Amit Pathak, and ADDl SPs of STF – Jai Prakash, Shahab Rasheed Khan, Dr Arvind Chaturvedi and S Anand were present during the meeting.