Two held with fake bank notes in capital

KATHMANDU: Police have arrested two people with Rs. 1.2 million fake bank notes at Bag Bazaar in the capital on Monday.

Acting on a tip-off that, a police squad deployed from Metropolitan Crime Division (MPCD), Teku rounded them up with fake Nepali bank notes, DSP Hobindra Bogati told Khabarhub.

The arrested are 52-year-old Bhim Bahadur Malla of Bhaktapur and Man Bahadur Subedi, 46, of Okhaldhunga.

“We took them under control acting upon information that they had been cheating people through false promises   by using hypnotism,” said Bogati.

They used to charge Rs 35,000 per person by promising them that they would help him/her convert fake a bundle of Rs 100,000 into real, according to police.