Trader held for cooking gas black marketing

KATHMANDU: Police said they arrested a cooking gas trader for his alleged involvement in black marketing, from Koteshwor of Kathmandu.

Madhav Prasad Ghimire (36), operator of Amisa Gas Depot at Setiopi Marga in Koreshwor, KMC-35, was arrested by a team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division today.

Police confiscated 50 cylinders of Everest gas from his store.

They claimed that he was selling a cylinder of gas for Rs 4,200, exactly three times the market price.

Further investigation is underway.