Kathmandu, June 25: The Kathmandu Valley Crime Division has arrested four people including a police head constable on the charge of their involvement in the looting of Rs 20 million from the house of Dilliraj Raut in Dhadikot, Bhaktapur.
According to the Division’s Superintendent of Police, Angur GC, the arrested are Monaraj Rai, 35, from Manebhanjyang of Okhaldhunga and presently residing in Lalitpur, Bhim Bahadur Tamang, 31, from Bhotekoshi of Sindhupalchowk and Sujan Rasaili, 31, of Bahrabise of Sindhupalchowk.
The police head constable is Krishna Bahadur Bohara, 38, posted at the Armed Police Force two number battalion, Maharajgunj. He is a resident of Bhotekoshi rural municipality-2 in Sindhupalchowk.
They were presented to the public through a press meet here today. They are alleged of forcibly entering the house of Raut on June 18 claiming themselves from the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police and making away with the cash from a cupboard, it is said.
Six persons arrested for cheating more than 130 million
Likewise, Nepal Police have arrested six proprietors of Kalanki Trade Centre on the charge of cheating more than Rs 130 million from different individuals in the name of providing them shutters (space for shops) at the centre.
A team of the District Police Range, Kathmandu, arrested them on the charge of cheating and made them public today.
They are Shanti Raman Pangeni, 61, of Syangja, Narendra Bajracharya, 68, and Raju Maharjan, 51, of Kathmandu, Rajesh Krishna Shrestha, 62, of Lalitpur, Niranjan Kumar Shrestha, 53, of Palpa and Chiranjivi Poudel, 59, of Kaski.
Spokesperson of the District Police Range, Kathmandu, Nabaraj Adhikari, said they were arrested as they had cheated the people saying they would hand over them business shutter constructing Kalanki Trade Centre through Kalanki Developers and Mila Land Development Pvt Ltd.
Further investigation into the case was underway, added Adhikari.
