Pramod Prakash Pathak, Deputy Superintendent of Armed Police Force, Kanchanjunga, informed that the fish was confiscated and destroyed after it was found to be of a different species, although the bill stated the species as Pangasius.
The Armed Police Force Kanchenjunga Gulm has seized and destroyed 630 kilograms of fish illegally imported from India.
The bill stated that the fish was of the Pangas species, but another species of Indian fish was found, and it was seized and destroyed, informed Deputy Superintendent of Armed Police Force Kanchanjunga Pramod Prakash Pathak.
The fish was buried in a pit in the presence of local people's representatives, Nepal Police, Veterinary Hospital and representatives of the Animal Service Expert Center. The fish was buried with phenol, petrol, cow dung, salt and waste materials.
Yogen Shrestha, an animal technician at the Veterinary Hospital and Animal Service Expert Center, said that 250 kg of fish without documents were seized and destroyed on Bhadra 23.
