KATHMANDU, March 18: The Rupandehi District Court has granted permission to the police to detain Dipesh Pun, the son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, for 8 days for further investigation into a cooperative fraud case.

Rupandehi Police Chief SP Ranjit Singh Rathore confirmed that the district court in Rupandehi had approved an 8-day detention period for Pun.

Pun, who was arrested from Kathmandu last Friday, was taken to Rupandehi for investigation. At that time, a complaint was filed against some people including Pun for committing fraud through the Supreme Cooperative of Butwal, where he served as the vice chairman. The cooperative is alleged to have misappropriated over Rs 780 million belonging to depositors.

Dipesh Pun, also the general secretary of the All Nepal National Independent Students’ Union (Revolutionary), a sister organization of the ruling CPN (Maoist Center), has been implicated in the gold smuggling case as well. The report of the High-Level Probe Commission has cited the necessity of interrogating the main suspect arrested with 60 kilograms of gold on July 18, to probe further into his suspected association with Dawa Chiring.

 
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