KATHMANDU, Feb. 18 -- A record maintained by Nepal Police has shown that there is a growing trend of women being used in drug-trafficking of late.

The smugglers have been trafficking drugs through the Nepal-India border by using women. The number of drug users is also increasing in an alarmingly way.

According to the statistics maintained by the Nepal Police, around 800 people including 45 women were arrested on the charge of trafficking drugs in the period of five years between 2014 and 2018.

According to SP Chakra Raj Joshi, spokesperson of Narcotic Control Bureau, 154 people were arrested in 2014, 123 in 2015, 168 in 2016, 153 in 2017 and 201 in 2018. They were arrested on the charge of trafficking people and drugs.

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