KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Police have arrested two Indian nationals on charges of abduction and holding a person hostage.
The arrested have been identified as Paramprit Singh, 24, and Labaprit Singha, 28, both from Punjab, India. A team from the District Police Range, Kathmandu, apprehended them for allegedly holding a 26-year-old man from Haryana, India, hostage under the false promise of sending him to Australia.
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According to Kathmandu Police Range Spokesperson SP Pawan Kumar Bhattarai, 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 police a seven-day remand to carry out further investigation. Police also confiscated four mobile phones of different brands from the suspects.
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