Police have arrested a man with 7,600 kg of low quality honey.

Acting on a tip-off, a team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD) arrested the operator of Natija Packaging Nara Bahadur Shrestha aka Naresh Shrestha.

Natija Packaging, which was registered in the name of his wife Rashmila Shrestha, had been producing low quality honey for the past seven years.

Police said that they have been found selling the honey by pasting the label of ‘Sparsha Honey’.

SP Krishna Prasad Koirala, who is also the spokesperson of the MPCD said that the honey was found to be of poor quality and inedible while testing at the Department of Food Technology and Quality Control.

According to a preliminary investigation, they had been found selling the low quality honey in the restaurants and hotels in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Pokhara.

The Sparsha Honey brand has not been registered yet. 

Police have recovered machines, chemicals and raw materials among others used to make the honey.

Shrestha has been sent to the Metropolitan Police Range, Teku for further investigation.