INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, JULY 22
Police have arrested a 30-year-old man, who allegedly staged a ‘fake abduction& to avoid repayment of tens of millions
of rupees in loan he owed to various persons.
Metropolitan Police Crime Division had launched a search and rescue operation after it
received complaint of Shakti Raj Regmi‘abduction& on July 17
The complaint lodged by his parents said that he had gone missing since July 8 and was suspected to have been kidnapped by a criminal
gang.
He hails from Chundevi, Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
Police carried out a search and rescue operation for five days, only to find him
romancing a woman at a Gongabu-based hotel
&Our investigation does not establish this as an abduction case from any angle
Regmi had gone out of contact for his private reasons
He had taken tens of millions of rupees in loan from various persons on the pretext of operating a real estate business
As the lenders asked him for repayment of loans, he hatched a false abduction plot to avoid his debtors and get their sympathy,& said an
MPCD official.
People often make abduction claims to cover up their crime and fleece their own relatives, said the official.
Superintendent
of Police Ishwor Karki informed that Regmi been charged with the public crime for trying to elude the law enforcement agency by spreading
false rumour.
&Abduction dramas engage police personnel unnecessarily, leading to waste state resources,& he said.
A version of this article
appears in e-paper on July 23, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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