KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Nepal Police have arrested four persons, who helped in abducting Nepali people in Greece and demanded ransom.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: District Police Office, Parsa has arrested four children on charge of kidnapping and holding their classmate hostage. The identities of those arrested have not been released as they are minors.

KATHMANDU, August 5: Surya Bahadur Rai, 26, of Chisapani, Chisankhugadhi Rural Municipality-5 of Okhaldhunga, was walking on a road at Kapurdhara  of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-26 at 7 PM on Wednesday when he was forcibly taken under control by a group of six people who said ‘we have some work with you'. The group took him from Kapurdhara there to Khareltol of Lazimpat, Kathmandu Metropolitan City-2. Rai was an 'interpreter' of Chinese and Nepali. In a house in Khareltol, Yang Yang, a Chinese businessman, lived. Rai served as an interpreter for the Chinese businessman.

Girls at high risk in Birgunj

June 12, 2019 04:00 am

BIRGUNJ, June 12: The rise in rape, kidnapping and sexual assault, among others, in recent times shows how the safety of young girls is at risk in Birgunj Metropolis.

Parsa, May 29: The Parsa Police have arrested three youths including an Indian national on the charge of kidnapping and killing an eight-year-old boy from Birgunj metropolis-3. They are Bikash Sharma from Betiya of Bihar, India, and currently staying in Birgunj metropolis-3; Sikendra Saha, of Kalaiya sub-metropolis-11, Bara; and Winesh Mahato of Khapartata, Bara. Identities of the accused were made public today.

DAMAK, Dec 15: Of late, there has been a marked rise in murder, kidnapping and robbery among other crimes along the Nepal-India border in Jhapa district. Taking advantage of the open border, criminals find it convenient to cross over to India after committing crime in Nepal.

Kidnapping cases up by 29%

December 5, 2018 09:40 am

KATHMANDU, Dec 5: While Nepal Police claims that kidnapping cases have declined over the last few years due to increased police vigilance, data maintained by Nepal Police itself show that kidnapping cases increased by 29 percent in last fiscal year compared to the year earlier.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: 12 people accused in the kidnapping and murder of Krishna Prasad Adhikari of Fujhel, Gorkha have been acquitted by Chitwan District Court.

Michael Obi and his driver were abducted at gunpoint on 26 June in Enugu but were released on Monday.

RAUTAHAT, June 15: A policeman and a teacher have been taken into custody for investigation into the kidnapping of 12 years old Yuvraj Shah of Katahariya Municipality-9, on Sunday.

RAUTAHAT, May 27: Nepal Police has nabbed three Indian security personnel and an Indian citizen for illegally entering Nepal to arrest a Nepali entrepreneur.  They were detained while returning to India with the arrested person from Gaur’s border point in Rautahat district on Saturday. Police also impounded a jeep used by the Indian police.

KAKADVITTA, Oct 9: Journalist Pujan Ghimire, the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Jeevan Bista, has been arrested after five months.

CHICAGO, July 2: The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois’ highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013.

CHAMPAIGN, July 1:  A central Illinois man was charged Friday with kidnapping in the disappearance of a visiting Chinese scholar who authorities believe to be dead after last being seen three weeks ago.

KATHMANDU, March 23: Police have arrested two people in connection with the murder of a lady. Prakash Lamichhane, the main culprit, plotted a plan to murder his own girlfriend Radhika Shrestha.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Tuesday arrested a mastermind for his alleged involvement in kidnapping a teenage girl with an intention to sacrifice her to appease the gods in order to cure his ailing mother.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested a man for his alleged involvement in kidnapping a teenage girl with an intention of sacrificing her to a god.