Superintendent of Police of the District Police Office, Laldhoj Subedi, informed that seven people involved in the bank robbery on Poush 10 at 7:30 pm have been arrested and one is absconding. He
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Police have arrested seven people involved in the robbery of a Nepal SBI Bank branch in Ghyanglekh Rural Municipality here. The District Police Office held a press conference on Friday and made public the details of the arrested people.
Superintendent of Police of the District Police Office, Laldhwaj Subedi, informed that seven people involved in the bank robbery were arrested at 7:30 pm on Poush 29 and one is absconding. According to him, 49-year-old sumo driver Bhagwat Singh Thapa of Banepa Municipality-10 of Kavrepalanchok, 47-year-old Chaturman Bajyu of Ghyanglekh Rural Municipality-2 of Sindhuli, 24-year-old Shashank Shrestha of Bharatpur Metropolitan Municipality-2 of Chitwan, 23-year-old Milan Giri of Panchakanya Rural Municipality-5 of Nuwakot, 19-year-old Bivek Magar, 44-year-old Chhabilal Syangtan of Ghyanglekh Rural Municipality-2 of Sindhuli and a minor have been arrested.
On the evening of Poush 29, they had taken control of the bank guard Rudra Bahadur Karki and the employees of the bank and robbed them. They had attacked the bank security guard with a khukuri and slightly injured him before entering the bank and looting the cash and escaping.
After finding BAD 0398 Tata Sumo and driver Bhagwat Singh about two kilometers east of the incident site in Lipikhola and initially interrogating them, the search for those involved in the bank robbery was intensified based on the description given by the driver after receiving information that six unknown people had reserved the Tata Sumo from Banepa in Kavre on the same day for a wedding.
According to the Nepal SBI Branch Office, Gyanglekh Branch, they had looted Rs 37 million from the bank that day.
The arrested persons have been remanded in custody for five days for theft and robbery and are being investigated. The police have recovered Rs 26.855 million and 175 thousand 175. In addition, two khukuris, one plastic pistol, five mobile phones, one large water tape, three black masks and one red mask, and one pair of black gloves used in the incident have been recovered.
