SUNSARI: Police have arrested three people in Dharan, Sunsari, for allegedly transporting goods worth Rs. 982,500 that had been brought into the country without paying customs duties.
The goods were discovered during an inspection of a mini-truck (Ko 2 Kha 1618) travelling from Itahari to Dharan.
A joint police team from the Area Police Office, Dharan, and the temporary police post in Tinkune arrested the driver, Pradeep Kumar Sah, 25, of Biratnagar Metropolitan City-4; co-driver Bhupendra Rajbanshi, 42, of Jahada Rural Municipality-1; and another co-driver, Kartik Rajbanshi, from the same locality.
Chandra Bahadur Khadka, information officer at the District Police Office, Sunsari, said the seized goods, the mini-truck and all three suspects had been kept at the Area Police Office, Dharan, for further investigation.
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