Kathmandu, March 30
Nepal Police on Thursday arrested a suspect of a bank robbery that took place in Chennai of India on Monday.
A team deployed from the Interpol’s National Central Bureau for Nepal arrested the security guard at the bank, identified as Sabilal from his home country on the charge of stealing money from the Indian Overseas Bank*.
Earlier, Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Mumbai had requested Kathmandu’s NCB to find him suspecting Shahi flew to his home after the crime.
Meanwhile, Indian media have reported that Nepal Police refused to hand him over to the Chennai police as they have to follow various norms to extradite him from Nepal to India, as per the treaty signed between the two countries in 1963.
In another case, a suspect of a theft at a departmental store in Mumbai of India has been arrested from Surkhet of mid-western Nepal.
Shahi is a resident of Barahatal Rural Municipality in Surkhet.
SP Uma Prasad Chaturbedi at the Surkhet District Police Office says police are interrogating him at the DPO. In his statement, Shahi confessed to his crime in cahoots with others, according to a source.
It has been learned that two other Nepalis have been arrested in India in connection with the case.
*Corrected and updated
