Kathmandu: Police in a Nepalese town have seized CDs of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Hindi film Chandni Chowk to China , banned by the Himalayan nation for allegedly showing that Gautam Buddha was born in India.

The police have seized 500 CDs of the Indian film after raiding various video centres in the eastern Nepal town of Biratnagar at the instruction of the administration, officials said. Nepal government has already banned the film after students protested it's controversial scene, which shows Buddha as born in Indian. Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini, a western Nepal town bordering India some 2560 years ago.

Even after the government issued instruction to halt screening of the film to cinema halls the pirated CDs of the film is being sold in the market openly. Nepal government has also directed Foreign Ministry to take up the issue to government of India for removing the scene from the film while screening outside the country. Meanwhile, a leading daily has claimed that the book "A History of Knowledge" authored by Charles Van Doren, which describes Gautam Buddha as an Indian prince, is still included in the course book of MA second year of Tribhuvan University.

 The book has been included in the course syllabus for the last one decade and nobody has taken it seriously, the daily reported. In Kathmandu students launched street protests after the screening of the film in the halls of Kathmandu last week, after which the government banned the film from screening.