The District Police Office, Jhapa, has arrested 7 members of an organized fraud gang using government seals, signatures and fake documents. Of these, 6 are Indian citizens. 

The arrested are Arindam Dhar, Deepa Bhowmik, Suman Sarkar, Nur Kalam Sheikh, Abed Ali Hossain, Farooq Azmi from West Bengal, India, and Devendra Sapkota from Kamal Rural Municipality-6, Jhapa. They were taken into custody from the Bhadrapur-Chandragadhi Airport Ghodamara road section at around 6 pm on Falgun 2.

Two vehicles with Indian number plates, Suzuki Baleno with number WB 06 U 3006 and Toyota Fortuner with number WB 06 X 0300, were heading from Chandragadhi to Kakadbhitta when the Armed Police Force took them into custody during the investigation and handed them over to the Police Office for investigation.

During the investigation, fake registration certificates with the Nepal government seal, tax payment certificates, customs documents, date sheets, fake police identity cards, various Indian identity cards and mobile phones were recovered from the accused.

Similarly, 21 tin boxes and 237 bundles of plain paper in the shape of banknotes were recovered from a hidden location in Mechinagar Municipality-4, Amdangi, according to the police. The bundles were prepared in such a way that genuine banknotes were placed at the top and bottom and plain paper was placed in the middle, said DSP Khagendra Khadka, spokesperson of the District Police Office, Jhapa. 

According to the police, the amount invested by the gang in the business was confiscated by the Nepalese authorities due to legal obstacles and the initial investigation has revealed that they planned to defraud people known to them and with a business background by sending video messages on the pretext of paying a fine to take the amount to India.

Police say that a photo and video of the box and the bundle of banknotes were taken about a month and a half ago at a hotel in Mechinagar.