Police have taken into custody two youths from Darchula and India with clothes worth Rs 79,000 that were being smuggled to India after evading customs.
Darchula Police have arrested two people with goods for customs fraud. Police said that the two people were arrested with the goods while they were crossing the Mahakali River towards India at the Laskukhola strait in Bangabagar, Mahakali Municipality-4.
According to the District Police Office, Sher Bahadur Mahata, 35, a resident of Durga Thali Rural Municipality-6, Bajhang district, and currently residing in a room at Prem Singh Dhami's Salik, Mahakali Municipality-4, Darchula, and Bhasu Budhathoki, 24, a resident of Sirkha, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, and currently residing in Dharchula Bazaar, India, were arrested from the river bank while they were trying to smuggle goods across the river to India.
The police have arrested two people with goods worth an estimated Rs 79,000, including ladies' cropped pants, ladies' trousers, jeans cropped pants, and other items that were being smuggled across the Mahakali river from Nepal to India.
A police team deployed from the Community Service Center Bangabagar found and took both of them under control on Tuesday, and further investigation is underway, according to the District Police Office.
