Kathmandu, May 3 -- Police on Saturday arrested two men, one of them an Indian national, suspected of operating a hundi (illegal money transfer) service in Kathmandu, and seized over Rs 2.4 million in cash from them.

Acting on a tip off, Metropolitan Police Beat, Kalimati, arrested Rupesh Kumar Gupta, 39, a resident of Motihari, India, living in Lalitpur and Sagar Shrestha, 35 a resident of Baglung currently living in New Baneshwor.

"Of the total seized amount, over 600,000 was recovered from Gupta while remaining 1.8 million was confiscated from Shrestha," said Deputy Superintendent Rugam Kunwar, chief at Metropolitan Police Beat, Kalimati.

"The arrestees were found to have been involved in running hundi and further investigation into...