Alcohol recovered from border area

PARSA: JUNE 4 – Police have taken under control liquor worth more than Rs 1 million being smuggled from Nepal to India in the dark of night taking advantage of the open border. Three hundred cartons of liquor of the same value were seized from Bhishwa Banjari of Chhipahrmai Rural Municipality-2 of Parsa while it was being kept in a tractor.

According to Parsa Superintendent of Police Bel Bahadur Pandey, 300 cartons of liquor worth Rs 1,060,000 were seized during the operation. He said that a tractor heading towards India was stopped and checked in defiance of the ban issued by the local administration to control the corona infection.

A search is on for the absconding tractor driver and the recovered liquor and vehicle have been sent to the Birgunj Customs Office for necessary action, police said.