Police have arrested three people here for trafficking in banned drugs by using ambulance.

They were arrested from near Junhall at Bharatpur Metropolitan City-2. They had come by booking an ambulance from Nawalparasi. Police confiscated 187 tablets of Nitrozepam, 94 capsules of Spasmo Proxivon, one litre Corex and 40 tablets of Traumadol from them.

Those arrested in this connection are Binod Ranamagar, Prabin Gharti and Anjan Timilsina. It is said Timilsina had ordered the banned drugs from the former two. Rana and Gharti had called an ambulance feigning themselves as sick who needed to be taken to hospital.

Similarly, police held three people in possession of narcotics substance from Jagatpur of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-24. Those arrested are 45-year-old Sanumaya Magar of Shukranagar of Bharatpur-25, 19-year-old Pradeep BK of Bharatpur-24 and 57-year-old Padam Bahadur Tamang of Bharatpur-24.

Police confiscated 4.93 kilogrammes of banned narcotics substance and a motorcycle from them. Cases would be filed against the six people under the drug trafficking control laws, the District Police Office Chitwan said.