KATHMANDU, Dec 11: A woman who was arrested from Morang with Rs 4.749 million in cash of undisclosed source on Tuesday is suspected of being involved in hundi business.
Acting on a tip-off that she was keeping illegal money in her house, a team of police personnel from the Area Police Office (APO), Rangeli, raided the house of Jyoti Devi Agrawal, 65, of Rangeli Municipality-8, Morang on Tuesday afternoon. Upon searching her house, they found the money with an undisclosed source hidden in a tin box.
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According to the chief of the APO Inspector Santosh Khadka, preliminary investigation has revealed that Agrawal might be operating a hundi business. “Based on what she told her neighbours and her own personal statement, we have suspected that she is involved in a hundi business,” Inspector Khadka told Republica, “We have presented her to the Morang District Court which has granted us the permission to keep her in 14 days of judicial custody for further investigation.”
Deputy Superintendent of Police Prakash Joshi at the District Police Office, Morang, informed Republica that Agrawal has claimed that the cash found from her house is her own savings but has not been able to explain how she accumulated the amount or why she has been hiding it.
