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Kathmandu, September 19 (HS). Nepal Police has arrested two Indian citizens for smuggling clothes worth more than one crore rupees from India into Nepal without paying any customs duty. The arrests were made while smuggling a truck full of clothes into Nepal and sending it to Kathmandu without any inspection and customs duty.
Makawanpur district police seized a truck carrying illegal clothes while it was being transported to Kathmandu via Hetauda. Makawanpur district SP Sitaram Rijal said that during the inspection of the truck with Indian number plate (BR 05 GD 1343), not a single custom duty bill or other tax payment bill was found for the sacks of new branded clothes filled in it. He said that the market value of the seized clothes is Rs 1 crore 35 lakh.
According to SP Rijal, Indian citizens who were taking all these goods illegally to Kathmandu, 30-year-old Jahangir Alam, a resident of Sapahi, East Champaran district of Bihar state and his companion Munna Mian, 19-year-old resident of Chaulaha Colony of East Champaran, have been arrested.
SP Rijal also said that a sack of potatoes was kept above the sack of clothes in the truck, whose custom duty bill was also shown but when the investigation was done below, a sack full of branded clothes was found. According to the police, there were 365 sacks of potatoes above the sack full of clothes but the custom duty was only for 243 sacks. After getting suspicious due to this, the police unloaded all the goods kept in the truck and found a sack full of clothes.