SABROOM, Tripura : A 65-year-old Pakistani woman, suspected to be involved in drug trafficking and a jailbreaker from Nepal was arrested from the border town of Sabroom in South Tripura district on Sunday.
According to reports, the woman named Louis Nighat Akhtar Bhano had been sentenced to 15 years in jail in Nepal in connection with a drug-related case. Taking advantage of the recent unrest in Nepal, she escaped from jail and, with the help of brokers, boarded the Kanchanjunga Express to travel through Tripura on her way to Bangladesh. The Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested the woman at Sabroom railway station and later handed over to the local police station for interrogation.
Arrested by the police in Nepal in 2014, for carrying 1 kg of brown sugar she was jailed for 15 years.
She had been serving her term at Kathmandu Jail until last month, when she allegedly escaped amid widespread unrest in Nepal.
Bhano is reportedly the wife of a man named Md Golaf Faraj, a resident of Sheikhupura in Pakistan. She entered Nepal 12 years ago using a Pakistani passport and started drug trafficking.
