Indian police seized 15 trucks in Mau, India on Friday on charges of illegally exporting coal to Nepal.

“We intercepted the trucks en route to Bhairahawa after we received reliable information of their illegal attempt,” report quoted a source at the police post based in Kotawali, India, as saying.

He said the trucks were carrying documents that showed the coal was being shipped to Damodarji Jaya Ambe Coal Supplier, Sagarji Jaya Ambe Coal Supplier and Deepakji Jaya Ambe Coal Supplier, Bhairahawa. “But, these suppliers did not exist in Bhairahawa,” he said.

With the seizure, eighteen Indian coal clearing agents based in Sunauli have fled fearing arrest on suspicion of involvement in the case.