Acting on a tip-off, the police raided Islampur village and arrested Farmanullah Ansari, an active member of a gang involved in the smuggling of counterfeit currency notes and contraband across the porous Indo-Nepal border, SP Jitendra Rana told reporters.
Ansari was a native of Hariharpur village in Nepal's Bara district, he said.
Rana said that the police and security agencies were interrogating the arresed. The NIA has been informed about Ansari's arrest.