Four arrested along with 'yarsagumba'
23 Jan 2025
KATHMANDU: Nepal Police’s Metropolitan Crime Control Division has arrested four persons along with the valuable ‘yarsagumba’ (caterpillar fungus) worth around Rs 8 million.
Yarsagumba weighing 1.85 kilogrammes was confiscated from them. The scientific name of yarsagumba is Cordyceps sinensis.
A team from the Division apprehended them based on information that illegal trade of yarsagumba was taking place at Samakhusi of Kathmandu.
Those arrested in this connection are 48-year-old Dundup Gurung of Gorkha currently residing in Mitranagar, Kathmandu, 50-year-old Bel Bahadur Thapa...
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