Police cracks down on Hundi business, 15 arrested
Police cracks down on Hundi business, 15 arrested
Police on Wednesday evening arrested 15 people for their involvement in an unauthorized means of remittance transaction known as hundi. They were arrested from New Road area. Police confiscated Rs 17.49 million worth of cash and cheques from them, according to Metropolitan Crime Division Chief Senior Superintendent of Police Sarbendra Khanal. Of the total confiscated amount, Rs 5.6 million and IC 100,000 was confiscated from New-Road mobile shop owner Surendra Kumar Goyal. The police made the on-site arrests of Prakash Sharma and Akash Dev who were clients of Goyal and seized Rs 1.5 million from Sharma and Rs 1.3 million from Dev. Likewise, Rs 500,000 was appropriated from the Hanshamani Transfer and Rs 32,000 from Prabhu Money Transfer. The amount was received through hundi, police said. Similarly, Rs 2-9 million was seized from a New Road-based shop owned by one Shanker Agrawal, Furthermore, Rs 650,000 was seized from one Arjun Kandel, Rs 1.2 million from Phurba Sherpa, Rs 2 million from Surya Kumar Sharma, proprietor of Purna Laxmi Enterprises, and Rs 1.3 million from Sandeep Agrawal, proprietor of New Maruti Enterprises.
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