Kathmandu, Oct. 17 -- Police on Wednesday arrested five people, including a doctor, a legal officer and chief executive officer of Nidan Hospital, a private health facility in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, for their alleged involvement in a kidney scam. Of the five arrested, four are associated with the hospital.

According to Superintendent of Police Govinda Thapaliya, chief of Anti-Human Trafficking Bureau of Nepal Police, a team of security personnel arrested Bipendra Pradhan, CEO at the hospital, Kumud Kumar Bhattarai, a legal officer at the hospital, Dr Rajesh Panta and Ram Chandra Ale. Ale is a section officer at the District Administration Office in Lalitpur. The fifth person arrested by the police is Shankar Lal Lama who had undergone a kid...