India, July 15 -- Investigators are reconstructing the journey to and across India, including a trip to Goa, of Jordan Brown - the 36-year-old US national arrested while allegedly attempting to cross into Nepal from Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj on July 11.

Brown, a California resident, was apprehended late on July 11 during a joint operation by the 22nd Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Sonauli police after he allegedly attempted to cross into Nepal through an unauthorised route in Maharajganj district without valid travel documents, HT reported earlier.

Officials cited in the earlier report said Brown told investigators he had met a Nepali national during a six-week stay in Goa and was travelling to Sonauli to meet him befo...