Kathmandu, April 1 -- The Kathmandu Metropolitan Crime Division of Nepal Police on Saturday arrested 26-year-old Jaybhan Singh Dhami after he allegedly faked his own abduction and demanded a hefty ransom from his family.
Police were alerted about Dhami's kidnapping by his family on Thursday.
"Dhami's brother had called us to inform about the kidnapping, saying that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of Rs2.3 million," Senior Superintendent of Police Dhiraj Pratap Singh, chief of the division, told the Post.
A native of Darchula, Dhami had been living in Jadibuti, Kathmandu. When the division traced the mobile number of the suspected kidnapper and mobilised a police team to the last known location of the caller, it became evident that D...