Kathmandu: Police have arrested two Indian nationals on charges of abduction and holding a person hostage. The arrested individuals have been identified as Paramprit Singh, 24, and Labaprit Singha, 28, both from Punjab, India. A team from the District Police Range in Kathmandu apprehended them for allegedly holding a 26-year-old man from Haryana, India, hostage under the false promise of sending him to Australia.
According to National News Agency Nepal, Range Spokesperson and Superintendent of Police Pawan Kumar Bhattarai stated that police acted on a tip-off that the suspects had locked the victim in a hotel room in Sundhara and demanded a ransom of Rs 2 million for his release.
The District Court in Kathmandu has granted the police a seven-day remand to carry out further investigation. Police have also confiscated four mobile phones of different brands from the suspects.