Smuggled goods worth over Rs 5 million seized

A joint team of the Armed Police Force and Customs Office on Monday seized clothes and hardware goods worth more than Rs 5 million brought into Nepal by evading tax.

Acting on a tip off that the goods smuggled into Nepal from India have been stored illegally on the ground floors of two houses at Adharsanagar in Birgunj Metropolitan City-10, Parsa, a joint team of the APF led by DSP Lokendra Subba and Birgunj Customs Office, Parsa raised the warehouses and recovered the goods.

The goods were seized from the place located about 3 km north of the border area.

The team confiscated clothes worth Rs 4.97 million and hardware goods worth Rs 121, 500.

The seized goods have been handed over to the Birgunj Customs Office, Parsa for investigation.