ITAHARI: The standards and metrics regional office Biratnagar has expedited market monitoring of the businessmen of Jhapa and Saptari districts who have been cheating the customers.

More than four hundred businessmen faced action last month in Morang, and 297 in Jhapa and Saptari this month, the office said.

The violation included using sub-standard measurement and food adulteration and the office collected a revenue of Rs. 116, 323.

Action was taken on businessmen in Kakadbhitta, Shanischare, Chandragadhi and Dhulabari of Jhapa and Rajbiraj, Bharadaha, Hanuman Nagar, Mahuli and Kanchanpur in Saptari.

The office chief Shashi Bhushan Yadav informed that the office also confiscated sub-standard measuring equipments from 190 businessmen in Jhapa and 107 in Saptari.