By Our Correspondent
Nepalgunj, Feb. 12:  Smuggling various goods using e-rickshaws has become rampant across Banke district in recent days.
Police have seized goods smuggled to and from Nepal from the e-rickshaws five times recently. The goods are smuggled keeping on the rod of the e-rickshaws.
Among the smuggled goods, betel nuts top the list, informed the border police stationed there. “Our units across the district have confiscated large amount of betel nuts being smuggled to India by hiding in e-rickshaws on different dates,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mahdusudan Neupane.

DSP Neupane, also the spokesperson for Banke District Police, informed that they had collected information on several e-rickshaws actively involved in smuggling goods to and through the border with India. Mostly, vehicles and individuals are arrested with smuggled betel nuts from the Jamunaha border of Nepalgunj.

Individuals are also arrested with daily goods, clothes, automobile parts and drugs while being smuggled from the southern border.
“We have collected revenue of Rs. 43,626,608 through the confiscation of smuggled goods in the past six months alone. It also shows how rampant smuggling is in the district,” said Superintendent of Police (SP) Shyam Krishna Adhikari, chief of Banke District Police.

Making public the progress report of the last six months, the district police also informed that they collected over Rs. 93.9 million revenue from the seizures of smuggled gold, chickens and timbers alongside illegal riverbed mining, arresting fugitives and traffic violations.