{"id":3142,"date":"2020-03-14T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/black-marketeering-in-masks;-eight-arrested-in-police-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2020-03-14T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:09:00","slug":"black-marketeering-in-masks-eight-arrested-in-police-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/black-marketeering-in-masks-eight-arrested-in-police-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Black marketeering in masks; eight arrested in police crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight persons were arrested on charge of involving in black marketeering of face masks when the country was reeling under coronavirus menace.<\/p>\n<p>The police arrested eight persons in possession of 78,000 masks from Dallu, Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) of Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu Hobindra Bogati shared that the black marketers were found selling mask each costing Rs 5 in an exorbitant price up to Rs 31.<\/p>\n<p>Among the arrestees are Mintu Tamang of Kavre, Mankaji Lama of Satdobato, Anish Karki, a local of Ramechhap and is residing at Nagarjun, Thumraj Upadhyay, a local of Bajura and is residing at Ekantakuna, Ujjwal Adhikari of Nagarjun municiplaity-2, Shiva Khadka, a local of Ramechhap and Lalitpur and Nishan Tamang, a local of Ramechhap and is residing in Soyambhu.<\/p>\n<p>The police teams deputed from Metropolitan Police Circuit Baneswor and Metropolitan Police Circuit Soyambhu seized the masks from Mahakal Manjushree Traders run by Mintu Tamang.<\/p>\n<p>Police launched the crackdown acting on a special tip-off. Preparation is on to take action against them as per the law, police informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight persons were arrested on charge of involving in black marketeering of face masks when the country was reeling under coronavirus menace. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[332,330],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}