KATHMANDU: Police today made public the seizure of smuggled clothes confiscated worth Rs 5.5 million stashed in a tourist bus at Budhanilakantha, Kathmandu on Monday evening.

A team of Metropolitan Police Range seized the illegal garments from a tourist bus (Ba 4 Kha 6939) parked at Bishnumati of Budhanilakantha Municipality-5 during a routine inspection of the bus. .

Illicit garments comprising 3,704 shirts and other garments packed in 41 sacks, stashed in a secret compartment in a roof of a bus, were brought to Kathmandu without paying the customs duty, informed Metropolitan Police Range's Police Inspector, Bhupendra Giri.

Investigation has ascertained that the bus plying the Delhi-Kathmandu route smuggled goods from India to Nepal.

The bus driver and assistant-driver have been absconding and the police have sent the bus and illegal garments to the Metropolitan Police Circle, Maharajgunj for further action, said Inspector Giri.