Pakistani National Arrested at Tribhuvan International Airport with Illegal Gutkha and Other Items
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Kathmandu. A Pakistani national has been arrested at Tribhuvan International Airport with illegal gutkha and other items.
According to the Tribhuvan International Airport Security Office, 63-year-old Pakistani national Shahid Mahmood, who was about to travel to Pakistan via Doha from Kathmandu on Qatar Airways flight QR 647, was arrested on Thursday.
During checking at the international flight departure hand baggage checking area of the airport, illegal tobacco products and other items were found in the luggage carried by Mahmood, holder of passport number BE0153555. According to the police, 1200 packets of Rajnigandha worth Rs 120,000, 70 packets of Pan Parag worth Rs 22,725, 81 boxes of a product called Kaththa worth Rs 28,350, and other items weighing 25 kg worth Rs 30,000 were found in his luggage.
Mahmood has been taken into police custody with the tobacco products and other items worth a total of Rs 201,100, which he was trying to smuggle out of the country.
According to the spokesperson and information officer of the Airport Security Office, Deputy Superintendent of Police Raj Kumar Silwal, the arrested Pakistani national has been handed over to Tribhuvan Airport Customs Office, Gauchar for necessary legal action.
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