A suspected drug smuggler was arrested from ward 8 of Siddharthanagar Municipality in Rupandehi district on Thursday. 

According to the District Police Office, Gopi Kisan Chaudhary, aged 21, of ward 4 of Marchawar Municipality was detained in possession of 16.3 grams of brown sugar. 

A police team was dispatched to the area after the police were tipped off that people were trading narcotics in the Bank Colony area in ward 8 of Siddharthanagar. 

Detailed investigation is going on into the incident, said police.