The Armed Police Force (APF) has stepped up patrols, surveillance and vehicle checks along Nepal's border with India ahead of the festival season, targeting goods brought in without customs duty.
In Kanchanpur, APF patrols recovered an electric scooter worth Rs 150,000, fertilizer, tobacco, groceries, electrical goods and 7,400 packets of firecrackers worth Rs 370,000, Onlinekhabar reported. The firecrackers are to be destroyed and the other goods were handed to the customs office at Gaddachauki. In Jhapa, the APF's No. 2 Battalion seized firecrackers worth Rs 316,590 and destroyed them in the presence of local representatives and police, according to Lokaantar and Nepal News.
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The Armed Police Force has seized smuggled goods and thousands of packets of firecrackers in Kanchanpur and Jhapa as it steps up border patrols before the festivals.
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