Overview

• A joint SSB–Bihar Police team acting on a tip-off intercepted the five at the Ghorasahan/Raxaul bus terminus in East Champaran on September 20.
• The detainees lacked valid visas or travel documents, and a case was lodged at the Ghorasahan police station.
• Police say two of the group confessed to escaping Nepal Central Jail, and officials are probing whether the remaining three also fled the same facility based on initial inputs.
• Notes, books and other papers, including material in Urdu, were recovered and are under examination, with the Intelligence Bureau notified.
• The Sudanese detainees told police they study in Hyderabad but could not explain entry via Nepal, and investigators are tracing the person who booked their bus tickets.