Kunsang Dorjee Lama, the owner of the herb, has absconded after the seizure of smuggled electronic cigarettes (Vape) worth around 10 million rupees in a container said to be carrying herbs.

On Sunday, the team of the Armed Police Force (APF) recovered the container. The container full of setak sugar (herb) was coming through Hilsa Naka in Humla. In which 39 thousand 900 vape smuggled from China were seized by the armed forces. After the vape was recovered, the owner of the container is absconding. Police have arrested 27-year-old Chhiring Lama of Simkot in Humla and 32-year-old Janak Rokaye of Mugu Khatyad and 27-year-old container driver Bhumi Rokaye. According to the sources, Janak and Chiring are associates of Lama, the herbalist. Lokjung Shahi, Acting Chief of Division Forest Office in Simkot, Humla mentioned that 5000 kg setak sugar was collected by Kunsang Doji Lama, the owner of Kailash-Ishwar Herbs Buying and Selling Center, and passed the herbal check and passed the pass from Simkot to Nepalgunj (Banke) via Sallisalla-Bajura-Kalikot-Dailekh-Achham-Kailali-Bardia-Kohalpur. The consignment was loaded and sent from Ghatgaddi of Jadibuti Forest in a container. The next day on Saturday (August 7) ​​at around 5:30 am, the container left Humla for Nepalgunj.

Even before that, the information about smuggling vape in the container had reached the Revenue Investigation Department . The department mobilized the mechanism of armed police after checking the container. Based on the information received, the armed forces arrested the driver and two other people with the container from the windows of Dailekh. After that, the armed forces assigned the team of the Revenue Investigation Office, which went from Bangesimal in Surkhet to Nepalgunj, to take the container to Banke to hand it over to the Revenue Investigation Office. After that, under the security of the armed forces, the Revenue brought the container to Kohlpur and opened it, and found 2,460 kg of Setak sugar and 39,900 pieces of smuggled cigarettes in the upper part. On the other hand, after the armed forces took control of the container, its owner, Lama, has been out of touch since then . Director General of Revenue Investigation Department Tirtharaj Chiluwal said that the seized vape was found in a container containing herbs left behind by the Division Forest Office from Simkot and it was found to be part of an organized gang's plan.

"Approximately 40,000 vapes have been recovered from the container sent by the forest as herbal product Setak Chini. The preliminary investigation shows that this may have been the plan of an organized gang, since the items other than those that have passed the inspection have been found in the container," Director General Chiluwal told Kantipur. It will be brought.' According to the source, the facts of 'unusual antagonism' have also been found between Lama, who is currently absconding, and Acting Divisional Forest Officer Lokjung Shahi. According to the source, the investigation on this matter is ongoing. 

Divisional Forest Officer Shahi cut the receipt of 1 lakh 25 thousand revenue mentioning 25 rupees per kg and left the container. Lama, who was running a smuggling business under the cover of herbal business, applied to the forest for a check pass on August 3 in the name of Kailash-Ishwar Herb Buying and Selling Organization. Two days after that, on August 5th, it appears that the chief Shahi passed the inspection on behalf of the forest.

According to revenue and security sources, the role of Forest Acting Chief Shahi in getting the vape passed from the container that passed the inspection in the name of herbs is suspicious, so he was also pulled into the investigation circle, said the source. It has also been revealed that Shahi has been working in the Humla Forest Office for the past 16 years. Revenue has increased surveillance on the forest employees after suspecting that gangs might be running the smuggling business by taking the forest employees in their hands. Divisional Forest Officer of Humla, Chandraveer Gurung, has been transferred to the Ministry of Forestry in Surkhet since last July 6. Then Shahi got the responsibility of Nimitta . Soon after, it seems that the gang worked at speed to deliver the smuggled vape from Humla to Nepalgunj under the cover of herbs.  According to

sources, a gang has recently been active in importing smuggled vapes from the Nepal-China border and taking them to India through Nepal. Even before this, vapes smuggled in from China were recovered from various places,

including Lomathang in Mustang and Imadol in Lalitpur. "As a continuation of the smuggling, this time too, there was a plan to transport vape from Banke to India under the cover of herbs. Based on secret information, the gang's attempt was not successful," said an officer involved in the investigation. It seems that after Shahi passed the inspection of the container, Forester Santosh Khatri and another forest employee Krishna Bahadur Hamal prepared the inspection pass letter to go to Nepalgunj. In the container check pass, the pass was provided to the container bearer stating that 'according to the rules, it is loaded on the Rohbar of the employee working at Sub-Division Office Humla, stamped with the HUM-1 number and sent to the forest check posts along the way for mandatory check and check'. However, when the Revenue opened the container, the specified quantity of herbs was not visible, the herbs were placed on top of the container and the vape sealed in cartons were placed below, according to the revenue official, it was a planned smuggling.