{"id":21045,"date":"2025-04-14T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21045"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:58:10","slug":"34-sacks-of-illegal-shaligram-confiscated-in-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/34-sacks-of-illegal-shaligram-confiscated-in-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"34 sacks of illegal &#8216;shaligram&#8217; confiscated in Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Mustang, April 14: Police have confiscated a large quantity of &#8216;Shaligram Sheela&#8217; or the ammonite stone in Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>The Shaligram Sheela is a fossilized stone or ammonite collected from the riverbed or banks of the Kali Gandaki, a tributary of the Gandaki River. The Hindus consider the Shaligram as a form of their god Vishnu. The Kali Gandaki river flows through sacred places such as Muktinath and Damodar Kunda, enhancing the spiritual significance of these &#8216;shaligrams&#8217;. Collection of large amount of Shaligrams is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The Area Police Office, Chhusang Check Post at Baragung Muktikshetra-3 in Mustang has seized 894 kg &#8216;shaligram sheela&#8217; packed in 34 white sacks during checks carried out at different times, according to the District Police Office, Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>Information Officer at the District Police Office, Mustang, Police Inspector Bishal Adhikari, said that the Shaligram Sheela was confiscated from a Bolero jeep (registration plate Ga 3 Cha 8152) going towards Jomsom from Loghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality-3 in Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>Kunsang Ranging Gurung, 41, of Surkhang of Loghekar Damodarkunda-5 in Mustang district was carrying &#8216;shaligram&#8217; to Jomsom illegally after loading it in the jeep, according to the Area Police Office, Chhusang.<\/p>\n<p>According to the District Police Office, Mustang, the jeep, the driver and the owner of the &#8216;shaligram&#8217; have been handed over to the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Office, Jomsom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ACAP Jomsom has said it has already handed over the jeep, the driver and owner of Shaligram along with the confiscated Shaligram Shila to Annapurna Conservation Area Project&#8217;s head office in Pokhara for investigation, said Office Chief Rajesh Gupta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustang, April 14: Police have confiscated a large quantity of &#8216;Shaligram Sheela&#8217; or the ammonite stone in Mustang. The Shaligram Sheela is a fossilized stone or ammonite collected from the riverbed or banks of the Kali Gandaki, a tributary of the Gandaki River. The Hindus consider the Shaligram as a form of their god Vishnu. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21047,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions\/21047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}