“I was arrested and faced lots of hardships. Luckily my relatives in India found the employer and handed him over to police, and I was freed.”According to him, there are many Nepalis languishing in Indian jails for similar reasons. “At that time, four other Nepalis were serving jail terms for allegedly being involved in gold smuggling. Just like me, their employers had used them to smuggle packages containing huge amounts of illegal gold.”Likewise, about a month ago, Dilip Rai of Panchthar and Nimesh Raya of Panitanki were arrested at Bagdogra Airport. Police recovered 4 kg of gold from them. However, police investigation revealed that both of them were only porters and had agreed to deliver the gold to Kathmandu.Although police investigation revealed that both of them were only used as porters, their employer is still at large. So, both of them are in jail. Many Nepalis who are currently in the jails in bordering Indian states on the charge of smuggling gold, said they were duped by their employers into engaging in the illegal act.The Nepalis currently in Indian jails said they worked as mere porters and were duped by their Indian employers into smuggling gold. Investigations by Indian police into some of the porters have supported the porters’ claims. Several Nepalis found innocent have also managed to get out of the jails. But there are many others who are still languishing in Indian jails.old youth from Jyamirgadhi VDC of Jhapa district, who studied at Siliguri, India, got a request from his employer to deliver a package to Nepal. “I accepted the request without hesitation. I was supposed to deliver the package in Kakarbhitta. But only when the police in Bagdogra [in India’s West Bengal state] opened the package that I realized that I had been used for smuggling gold,” he said requesting to be unnamaed.
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