Inspector General of Armed Police Force Raju Aryal, who arrived in Delhi to participate in the Border Security Coordination Meeting, paid a courtesy call on the Indian Home Secretary.

After the conclusion of the ninth border security coordination meeting, Inspector General Aryal paid a courtesy call on Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs Govinda Mohan on Friday. The ninth border security coordination meeting between the Inspector General of Nepal's Armed Police Force and the Indian Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) began in Delhi on Wednesday and concluded on Friday with the signing of a joint document with a commitment to work together in border security and prevention and control of cross-border crime. Immediately after the meeting, a courtesy call was held between Inspector General Aryal and Indian Home Secretary Mohan in Delhi. During the meeting, the border security chiefs of both countries briefed each other about the meeting.

During the meeting, Home Secretary Mohan thanked each other for concluding the meeting in a manner that would prevent and control cross-border crime in the interests of both countries and address the common challenges of the two countries. Initially, SSB Chief Sanjay Singhal briefed on the discussions in the meeting and the joint signing of the joint document. After that, the Armed Police Force Inspector General Aryal and Govinda Mohan discussed the same issue, according to participating sources.

Mohan also committed to implementing the issues identified in the meeting, the source said.

Nepal-India border stretches for about 1,880 kilometers from Taplejung in the east to Kanchanpur in the far west, and Nepal has been deploying its Armed Police Force (APF) and India's Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) troops for border security. India has deployed troops at its border crossings on the Nepal side through more than 500 SSB border outposts. The Armed Police Force has deployed its manpower in the border area through 250 BOPs.

In the Border Security Coordination Meeting, Inspector General of Armed Police Force Aryal had requested to take this issue seriously, saying that Nepali citizens coming from India are being robbed, beaten and abused at the border crossings. Along with this, discussions and reviews were held on issues such as eliminating misunderstandings that may arise between citizens of other countries at the border, preventing abuse, managing cross-border occupation, drug control, customs fraud/smuggling, infiltration of third-country nationals, controlling the tendency to commit crimes in one country and hide in another, border pillar security, repair and search for missing pillars, etc. Nepal had expressed serious concern that third-country nationals were entering Nepal through India by bribery. The meeting source said that India had requested strict action against third-country nationals entering Nepal under the guise of non-governmental organizations and religious activities and engaging in activities against its country. Nepal had also requested that medical drugs smuggled from India under the guise of medicines be controlled. In response, India promised to provide the ‘batch’ of the seized drugs and details of the pharmaceutical company if such activities occur and to investigate and take action against the culprits on the basis of that, the source said.