DANG, Jan 24: Police arrested three individuals for forging fake land ownership certificates under someone else’s name and securing a bank loan of Rs 12 million.
The suspects include 22-year-old Gaurav Karki and 35-year-old Ishwari Maya Roka from Banepa Municipality-1, Kavrepalanchowk, and 35-year-old Dilip Kumar Singh from Jitpur Municipality-3, Bara.
A Banke team, assisted by Kathmandu police, apprehended the suspects on January 21 from Buddhanagar and Koteshwar in Kathmandu and took them to Banke.
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They forged fake land ownership certificates for 33 kattha of land with plot numbers 151 and 152 in Duduwa Rural Municipality-5, Banke, and used them to secure a loan of Rs 12 million from a Kathmandu-based bank branch.
Reshma Shrestha of Chandannath Municipality-8, Jumla, owned the land.
Gaurav, Ishwari, and Dilip divided the loan amount among themselves after the fraud, according to Banke Police Spokesperson DSP Ayush Prasad Joshi.
The police stated that further investigation into the incident is ongoing.
