"SSB personnel stopped a bus from Nepal at Pipraun village and detained the 12 persons, including five children and three women, from PoK for questioning after they failed to furnish travel documents," Superintendent of Police Ranjeet Kumar Mishra said.
They were trying to go to Jammu and Kashmir from Kathmandu where they had been staying for the past 12 years, he said.
They had taken a bus from Janakpur bus stand after entering into Indian territory where they were identified and detained by the paramilitary forces, he said.