KATHMANDU, June 28: The scheduled hearing of Nepal Police DSP Jagadish Chand involved in the murder of media entrepreneur Jamim Shah could not take place due to time constraint although he was presented before the District Court Kathmandu on Sunday.
Chand, 46, a permanent resident of Dasharathchand Municipality of Baitadi district was arrested last night from Baneshwor by a team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division.
The Crime Division handed over Chand to the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu after which he was presented at the court.
Jamim Shah, proprietor of the Space Times daily, was shot dead on February 7, 2010 in front of the French Embassy while returning home at Pani Pokhari from Hotel Yak and Yeti's Health Club on a Mitsubishi Pajero by two persons riding a motorbike. RSS
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KATHMANDU, June 28: Police have arrested fugitive former DSP Jagadish Chand in connection with the murder of media baron Jamim Shah, on Saturday.
Shah, Chairman of Spacetime Network Pvt. Ltd., was shot dead by an Indian underworld gang in broad daylight in the busy street of Lajimpat of the capital while he was heading toward his home in Panipokhari on February 7, 2010.
Chand, who was on the run after the crime, arrested six years after the crime from his Minbhawan-based house last night, police confirmed.
Chand had allegedly involved in planning the murder of Shah and worked as an accomplice to Deepak Shahi alias Babbu, who allegedly masterminded the murder of media baron Shah.
Police investigation had revealed then that Chand was found to have been in repeated contact with Babu.
Chand had fled Kathmandu and gone out of contact 22 days after the incident following police investigation revealed his involvement in the murder on the ground of his connection established through call details.
Earlier, Nepal Police had also issued a red corner notice against him.
"Chand is in our custody in connection with Shah murder case and we are still in investigation phase,"SSP Sarbendra Khanal, chief of Metropolitan Police Crime Division, told Myrepublica.
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