19 Inmates Stopped From Entering India & Border Security Ramped Up

Ramashankar, Namita Bajpai, Narendra Sethi & Rajesh Asnani @Patna/Lucknow/Dehradun/Jaipur

- Ramashankar, Namita Bajpai, Narendra Sethi & Rajesh Asnani @Patna/Lucknow/Dehradun/Jaipur

Amid stepped-up vigil along the India-Nepal border, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel have nabbed 19 prisoners who escaped from Nepal jails taking advantage of the unrest and tried to enter Bihar and UP that border the Himalayan country.

Ten jail inmates who had escaped from Dillibazar jail in Kathmandu were detained at the border in Bihar and nine in UP. SSB sleuths handed the 10 inmates, including two from Bihar, over to Bittha More and Sursand police stations of Sitamarhi district. In UP, the SSB rounded up four Nepali prisoners at Sonouli border in Maharajganj and five at Khunwa border in Siddharthnagar, officials said, adding the security agencies are grilling the Nepali prisoners.