KATHMANDU, April 10: Birgunj-based National Medical College’s Managing Director (MD) Shahnawaz Hussain Ansari has been admitted to a hospital after his arrest. He was arrested by the police on Monday. But citing health reasons, he was admitted to the hospital without being detained.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: The Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office has arrested a former police constable after 16 years on the charge of helping a drug dealer escape from police custody. He was made public on Friday morning.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: A hearing on whether to release Nepali Congress (NC) leader and former home minister Balkrishna Khand from prison on bail is underway at the Patan High Court today.

KATHMANDU, June 4: Top leaders and others arrested in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam have been brought to the Kathmandu District Court for extension of their custody. The court reserves the right to decide on whether to remand them in custody or not.

KATHMANDU, May 30: The hearing on the case against cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane was once again adjourned on Tuesday.

Young man found dead in Saptari

May 14, 2023 13:20 pm

JANAKPUR May 14: The dead body of a young man has been found in Saptari.

KATHMANDU, Oct 10: Cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane is being produced in the Kathmandu District Court today for his custody extension.

TAPLEJUNG, July 27: Six people who were under investigation on the charges of sexually abusing two girls aged 11 and 14, respectively, and human trafficking and transportation have been remanded into judicial custody for investigation into the cases.

BARA, May 29: A minor who was arrested on the charge of killing a man who tried to rape her has been tortured by the police.

KATHMANDU, May 23: Manoj Pandey, director of Model Globe Visas Consultancy, has been remanded in custody for five days.

The district court in Tanahu remanded actor Paul Shah in custody for seven days on charges of rape on Sunday.

Actress Christina Ricci has filed for divorce Thursday from her husband of seven years, and is asking for sole custody of their son.

Man arrested on charge of rape

December 29, 2019 09:16 am

UDAYAPUR, Dec 29: Police have arrested Umesh Sadaa, 21, of Gahirun in Triyuga Municipality 9, Udayapur, on the charge of rape. The accused, who, had fled right after the crime was arrested after five months. Officials from the District Police Office, Udaypur, arrested Sadaa on Thursday afternoon.

Alam remanded for eight more days

October 26, 2019 09:50 am

RAUTAHAT, Oct 26: The District Court, Rautahat on Friday remanded former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam in custody for eight more days.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 20: Rautahat District Court has remanded Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam in custody for more five days for investigations into a blast and subsequent murder of at least 22 of those injured in the bomb blast that took place in 2008.

KATHMANDU, Oct 16: Kathmandu District Court has remanded former House of Representatives speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara in custody for three more days for investigations into a rape attempt complaint filed against him by a female staffer at the parliament secretariat.

YANGON, July 26: Six Myanmar nationals deported from Singapore over alleged links to an ethnic minority insurgent group were remanded in custody in Yangon on Friday, a court spokesman said, as relatives of the accused said they were being held incommunicado.

LONDON, July 22: The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been kept in custody at a bail hearing.

DHANGADHI, July 11: Four teachers have been taken under custody after Madhav Kalauni, a ninth grader at Mahakali Bal Vidyalaya of Majhgaun, Bhimdutta Municipality in Kanchanpur, died allegedly due to severe beatings by the teachers.

Free Pranesh Gautam

June 13, 2019 02:05 am

Pranesh Gautam, a young comedian, is in custody for the last one week simply because he made a critical and satirical review of Nepali movie Bir Bikram 2. Police authority has not shown any sign of setting him free despite protests from youths, civil society and social media users for his release.

JANAKPUR, May 25: The Janakpur High court on Thursday ordered the authorities to remand Mahant (chief priest) Baikuntha Das Vaishnav of the Ratnasagar Temple in Janakpur in police custody. He has been accused of forging documents allegedly to sell off land belonging to Janak Hajari Vidhyapith, a campus-affiliated to Nepal Sanskrit University.

Gopal Siwakoti remanded in custody

March 13, 2019 19:33 pm

KATHMANDU, March 13: Gopal Siwakoti, who is accused in the 33.5 million fraud scam, has been remanded in custody.

BARA, Feb 2: The District Police Office (DPO), Bara, has taken Jagat Narayan Raut Kurmi, a driver of the District Administration Office (DAO), into custody for investigations into a road accident on January 26 in which a Superintendent of Police (SP) was killed and a chief district officer (CDO) was critically injured.

CARACAS, Dec 15: The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in US border patrol custody has triggered discussions. While some blame migration officials, others slam her parents who took her on a dangerous journey.

RUKUM, October 28: Five individuals including a local elected representative have been taken into custody in connection with the disappearance of a school teacher in Rukum District .

FLORIDA, Oct 27: The Florida man suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading critics was in custody on federal charges on Saturday, in a case reflecting the rancor of one of the most toxic election campaigns in decades.

SARLAHI, July 25: Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal took the initiative to hand over two children injured in a bomb explosion in Rautahat to Sarlahi-based Conflict Vitim's Child Care Home.

BIRATNAGAR, June 1: Morang District Court has sent Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shyam Khatri, one of the prime accused in gold smuggling at Tribhuvan International Airport, to judicial custody Thursday, following preliminary hearings over his involvement.

KATHMANDU, May 22: The Morang District Court has ordered to keep in custody to 28 individuals accused of 33.5 kg gold smuggling scam on Tuesday.

PARBAT, May 16: A 20-year-old youth accused of raping a differently-abled 79 years of woman in the district has been remanded in custody for further interrogation.

KATHMANDU, May 6: Transport entrepreneurs have agreed on the government decision to scrap the syndicate on public transport.

KATHMANDU, May 4: The government has started arresting transport entrepreneurs from various places in the country following the direction from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

PARSA, April 25: Police here have arrested the father of a man charged of meting out torture to a girl to whom his marriage was fixed and her family also.

TORONTO, April 24: A rented van plowed down a crowded Toronto sidewalk Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 before the driver fled and was quickly arrested in a confrontation with police, Canadian authorities said.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, April 8: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was taken into police custody Saturday after a tense showdown with his own supporters, capping an intense three days that underscored raw emotions over the incarceration of a once wildly popular leader who has been engulfed by corruption allegations.

KATHMANDU, March 19: The High Court (HC) of Patan on Sunday remanded 13 officials including promoters and high-ranking officials of the erstwhile Apex Development Bank to seven days judicial custody in order to move forward the investigation into a bank loan scam.

DHANGADHI, Feb 27: The District Court, Kailali on Monday sent Resham Lal Chaudhary, who is accused of masterminding the the 2015 Tikapur massacre, to judicial custody.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 2: A shooting at a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday that left one boy in critical condition, injured four others and had panicked parents in tears was an accident, police said.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Detained orthopedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC will remain in detention as the hearing of the case of contempt against him did not start on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 4: At least thirty people have been arrested suspecting their involvement in bomb attack targetting Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa who is the candidate to the House of Representatives from Kathmandu-4.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22:  The Special Court on Tuesday sent former chairman of the Tax Settlement Commission (TSC) Lumbadhoj Mahat and former member Umesh Dhakal to Dillibazar prison for their failure to post bail imposed by the court in relation to tax settlement cases.

HARARE, Nov 15: Zimbabwe’s army said Wednesday it has President Robert Mugabe and his wife in custody and is securing government offices and patrolling the capital’s streets following a night of unrest that included a military takeover of the state broadcaster.

KATHMANDU, August 1: The Supreme Court has ordered for judicial custody of suspended Director General of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) Chudamani Sharma.

KATHMANDU, June 29: The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday sought Rs 3 billion as bail  from suspended Inland Revenue Department chief Chudamani Sharma after preliminary investigations established his  involvement in a tax waiver scam.

KATHMANDU, June 4: The Special Court (SC) on Sunday extended the remand of Director General (DG) of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) Chudamani Sharma for a week.

KATHMANDU, May 18: Dipak Manange and Chakre Milan  are two notorious hooligans in the criminal world of Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, March 17: Kathmandu District Court released Nepal Police SSP Shyam Khatri, who was arrested by Crime Investigation Bureau for his involvement in the gold smuggling racket, on bail.

KATHMANDU, March 17: Kathmandu District Court ordered to take four Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) staffers and a businessman into judicial custody on the charge of power thefts.

Convict escapes police custody

February 19, 2017 10:25 am

BAITADI, Feb 19: A person detained in a case related to robbery escaped from police custody in Darchula on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has presented SSP Shyam Khatri at Kathmandu District Court for further investigation.