Trucks with smuggled goods detained

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BIRGUNJ, Oct 16 - Local District Administration has detained two trucks for trying to carry smuggled goods to Kathmndu and handed them over to the Customs Office.

Chief District Officer of Parsa Dolakh Bahadur Gurung told The Kathmandu Post Monday that the local administration had held the two trucks after they received information that the trucks were carrying smuggled goods to Kathmandu.

"Plenty of smuggled goods are brought here due to the open border. We have, therefore, decided at a meeting on Sunday to continuously carry out surveillance until the Tihar festival," he added.

The detained trucks with plate No Na 1 Kha 5498 and Na 1 Kha 637 belong to Trishakti Road Carriers. Both the trucks were held at a place called Gandak, about 7 kilometres north of Birgunj Customs Office.

All the goods in the trucks will be examined one by one and will be seized if they are found smuggled, Customs Chief Ishwor Pokhrel said.

Swindler jailed

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MORANG, Oct 16 - A permanent resident of Sawa Katahare VDC in Khotang district and now residing in Biratnagar has been jailed by Morang District Court on Sunday on the charge of cheating hundreds of people.

The man, Chandra Kami Ghimire, was engaged in collecting Rs 100 as application fee from hundreds of people who had responded to his fake advertisement in which he had said Nepal Dalit Mahasangh Eastern Regional Development Committee Morang required 70 employees.

The court had asked to furnish Rs 200 thousand for his release on bail, but since he could not pay the amount he was jailed.

Kami Ghimire had published the fake advertisement for 70 seats to be filled up in the committee in a local newspaper. He was arrested as he was collecting Rs 100 from each of the applicants as application fee 25 days ago.

According to Morang District Police Office, the case was filed against him when it was found that he had been cheating the youths promising that they would be employed in the Dalit Mahasangh Eastern Regional Development Committee Morang.

Police said the accused has been charged guilty for cheating.

Employees’ absence hit air passengers

JUMLA, Oct 16 (PR) - Air passengers are facing hardship here these days because of the absence of employees who are yet to return to their duty after a week-long Dasain vacation, locals said.

National flag carrier RNAC--Royal Nepal Airlines--has to bear additional losses as it has to fly its employees to the airport from Nepalgunj to handle the air passengers.

Locals said the loaders are doing the jobs of officials who are still absent from their duty. RNAC’s delayed-flight from Jumla-Nepalgunj last Monday had to stop at the airport for about 40 minutes due to overload, Nageshwor Raya, RNAC’s Regional Director in Nepalgunj, said adding it hampered flights of other sectors. An air-passenger Dhana Laxmi Shahi who had already boarded the plane said she was off-loaded even though her ticket was confirmed a week ago.