Two persons arrested for allegedly creating nuisance in a drunken state in Siliguri on Monday night managed to escape police custody on Tuesday morning, but one was caught later in the evening.

Sources said a team from New Jalpaiguri police station took Debashis Das and Krishna Dey to Siliguri district hospital for a health check-up, and while on way to court, the duo managed to flee from the police van.

Dey was picked up by police from New Jalpaiguri in the evening. Das is traceless.

Troops of the BSF 148 battalion posted at border outpost in Changrabandha of Cooch Behar arrested two persons, including a Bangladeshi woman, while they were trying to cross the border on Sunday.

In Cooch Behar, a team of Kotwali from police station went to Soniyerbathan-Magpala area of Cooch Behar–I block and destroyed cannabis plants spread over an area of around 70 bigha. No arrests have been made in this connection.