Police have arrested three persons along with illegal clothes worth around Rs 300,000 from Chhipkaiya in Birgunj on Monday morning. 

Chief at the Ward Police Office, Birta, Police Inspector Ain Bahadur Malla said that the police seized the clothes from a Tata Sumo car. The clothes were being smuggled to Kathmandu from Raxual, India. 

Malla said that the arrested are Tata Sumo driver Nabin Kunwar of Lalitpur district, Mahammad Firoj and Mahammad Anawar of Chhapkaiya-2. The police confiscated different goods including 200 pieces of salwar suits from them. 

Similarly, the police also seized different illegal goods worth around Rs 1.5 million from various places of the district during one week, according to the Ward Police Office, Birta. 

Preparation was underway to send the arrested persons and goods as well as goods at Revenue Investigation Office, Pathalaiya for the necessary action, said police. RSS