KAVREPALANCHOWK, Dec 6: A team deployed from the Area Police Office, Mangaltar, has confiscated 33 sacks of sugar which had been brought in by evading tax. According to the police, 33 sacks of 50 kg (1650 kg) of sugar were seized in the passenger bus BA PRA 03-001 KHA 1966 this morning at the police check post under the BP highway located in Roshi Rural Municipality-9 of Kavrepalanchowk.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Rajkumar Shrestha, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Kavre, the bus and the driver of the bus were taken into control along with the illegal sugar that was concealed in the trunk of the bus en route to Kathmandu from Khandbari of Sankhuwasabha. He said that further investigation is underway.
Pickup van with smuggled sugar under police control
The incident has shown that sugar is being smuggled from various places in eastern Terai through the BP highway connecting Kavrepalanchowk headquarters to Dhulikhel. A joint team of Nepal Police and Traffic Police seized 10 quintals of illegally brought sugar from a vehicle during a traffic check at Kavre Bhanjyang located in Dhulikhel-9 under the BP highway in the first week of November.
Similarly, in mid-October, the police seized 92 sacks of sugar from Panauti through the same highway and seized the truck. After the discovery of illegally imported sugar during routine vehicle checks on the BP highway, authorities have intensified inspections of regular means of transport to curb sugar smuggling.
