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An American citizen was arrested for arriving in India without a visa at the Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, the Sashastra Seema Bal said on Saturday.
An Indian accompanying the United States citizen was also arrested from the Panitanki area in West Bengal on Friday by the SSB soldiers.
The 25-year-old Samson Rana, a resident of South Dakota in the U.S. and the local man Kiran Lama were arrested by the SSB's Border Interaction Team.
Lama is a resident of Sukna in Darjeeling.
"The U.S. citizen was found to have entered India without a visa. Passport and other documents of the U.S. national and the Indian person, who was accompanying the former, were seized," an officer said.
Both of them were later handed over to Khoribari Police Station, he added.
-Sowmya Sangam
