BARA, July 8: A pickup van loaded with sugar from Dhodharpa of Kolhabi Municipality was impounded by the District Police Office of Bara on Wednesday night. According to the police, 49 bags of sugar that had been smuggled into the country without paying customs duty to the government were seized.
Bara Superintendent of Police Dilip Singh Deuba said that he had received information that a large quantity of sugar was being smuggled from India into Kolhavi Bazaar on Wednesday night. He added that upon hearing the information, the deployed police team had managed to take the pickup van under control.
3 held with 50 grams of brown sugar
Deuba said that the pick-up van, which entered the country from the Bankul border of Rautahat, was transporting the sugar to Nijgadh when the police took control of it in the Dhodharpa area of Kolhabi.
According to Deuba, the smugglers had hidden the bag of Indian sugar under a sac of puffed rice. Deuba said that since there is tight-checking of smuggled goods at the Bara checkpoint, the sugar was brought in through the Rautahat checkpoint.
