BANKE: Indian Custom Office has intercepted as many as 140 Kathmandu-bound fuel tankers at Rupaidiya checkpoint, citing technical glitches with online service.

According to Sharad Kumar KC, custom officer at Nepalgunj Custom Office, 140 fuel tankers as well as a dozen trucks laden with vegetables have been stranded on the Nepal-India border checkpoint for the last two days.

Even though the Indian Custom Office agreed to release the trucks ferrying vegetables, they are not going to release the tankers until the online service comes into operation, KC told Khabarhub.

“We are coordinating with Indian Custom Office since yesterday. They said they are facing server problem with the online service. They are trying to fix it,” he said.

KC said transport disruption started occurring time and again at the border checkpoint since online service was brought into operation.