Nepali migrant worker found dead in Malaysia

Nepali migrant worker found dead in Malaysia

2017-03-17 08:41:24.0

Dhanusha, March 17: A man from Dhanusha who had gone to Malaysia for work has been found dead in suspicious circumstances.

     Santosh Singh, 21, from Hansapur Kathapulla of Dhanusha district was found dead in the premises of the house where he had been staying at Puchung, Malaysia, Dhirendra Paswan, who works at the same place where Singh worked, informed the Singh family.

     According to Paswan, Singh was found hanging in the premises of the house where he lived. He had been working at the Nigai Hing Foundry Works in Malaysia for the last two years. The company where Singh worked has stated that it has taken the incident seriously. Paswan said they are taking initiatives to send Singh's body to Nepal.

     Meanwhile, another man from Dhanusha district who was in Qatar in course of employment has been reported as missing since the last eight years. He is Naresh Kumar Yadav of Ramdaiya Bhawadi, Kshireshwarnath Municipality.

     The Yadav family here is distressed after Naresh became incommunicado. It is stated that after three years in Qatar, Yadav had informed his family that he was returning to Nepal.  It is also said that he had boarded a flight to Nepal but nothing is known about him till now. 

     Naresh's father, Ram Bir Yadav, had reached Kathmandu to receive his son but he had to return with a heavy heart after his son did not arrive. The Yadav senior has urged the bodies concerned to find the whereabouts of his missing son.

The Yadav family, that is very poor, has been in great distress since Naresh went missing as he was the sole bread-earner for the entire family of five. RSS

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Four people including two policemen arrested for looting

Four people including two policemen arrested for looting


Kathmandu, March 17: Police has arrested four people including two Nepal Police Sub Inspectors for their involvement in first kidnapping and then looting a manpower supply company proprietor.

     Those arrested in this connection include Sub Inspectors Sambat Tamang and Surya Bahadur Thapa, Raj Kumar Gurung of Devdaha, Rupandehi district and Arjun Bahadur Lama of Shikar Ambote VDC, Kavre district. Sub Inspectors Tamang and Thapa are currently assigned at the Metropolitan Police Circle, Gaushala though they have their postings at different places. A team of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division arrested them.

     The four arrested, including Raj Kumar Gurung, had called Badri Rai from Dhankuta and the proprietor of Tiger Overseas Pvt Ltd, at Dhumbarahi, to Koteshwar on January 14, 2017 and abducted him from there. From Koteshwar, they took Rai to Sinamangal and held him hostage in a room at the house where Bajeko Sekuwa Corner restaurant is run. They had then looted Rs 230 thousand in cash from Rai and also made him to sign on four bank cheques amounting to Rs 10 million under duress. Out of the cheques, two are of the Nabil Bank and two of the Rastriya Banijya Bank at the rate of Rs 2.5 million each.

     These cheques were in the name of Sub Inspector Tamang, Gurung and one Dhiraj Gurung as bearers. The abductors also made Rai to sign on some papers of transaction that they had brought with them before releasing him in the night.

     They were arrested on Tuesday from different places in Kathmandu. They have been held in custody at the Crime Control Division and investigation is underway, police said.