KATHMANDU: High Court Patan has remanded Naresh Kumar Thapa, the younger brother of Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, in custody, reversing the decision of Kathmandu District Court.
Hearing the case, a joint bench of Chief Judge Nahakul Subedi and Judge Shreeman Kumar Gautam remanded Thapa in custody for further investigation.
A case had been filed at High Court Patan against Thapa on the charge of extorting businessmen in cahoots with a criminal group.
On September 18, a single bench of Judge Medani Paudel of Kathmandu District Court had released Thapa on Rs 100,000-bail.
Six people including Thapa had been accused of extorting businessmen in cahoots with Samirman Singh Basnet, the murder-accused of Chairman of Federation of Contractors’ Association of Nepal Sharad Kumar Gauchan.
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