Kathmandu: Nepal has beefed up security along its porous border with India to check criminal activities and clamp down on smuggling.
Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) has heightened security around its porous borders to India. It has been done so as to check criminal
activities and smuggling.
The APF has established a new Border Security Office (BSO) on the Indo-Nepal border in the industrial district of Biratnagar, which is in the south-eastern part of
India.
"APF will perform its duty which is safeguarding the rights of the people by controlling different kinds of criminal activities in the areas," an APF statement said.
APF’s divisional headquarters DIG, Thakur Mohan Shrestha, said that the BSO in all the five districts of the eastern Terai region bordering India has been established on May 29.
Nepal has already decided to establish BSO’s in 16 districts of the Terai region to guard the border, control crime and trans-border smuggling and take care of border pillars.
The Nepal government plans to establish BSOs at Chandragadhi of Jhapa district, Budhnagar of Morang, Inaruwa of Sunsari, Itahari-Bisanpur of Saptari and at Gaurishankar Rice Mill in Siraha.
The division headquarters have already established one security post each in 38 of the 49 constituencies in the eastern region.
Nepal's top watchdog, the Commission of Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), had directed the authorities to heighten security along the border with India to check smuggling, particularly the increasing incidence of red sandalwood from India to China.
The authorities have seized over 80 tonnes of red sandalwood meant for the Chinese markets over the last few months.
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