Kathmandu, March 22 -- Waling Municipality Mayor Dilip Pratap Khand says his office is ready to take German watchmaker Michael Kobold and his associates to court if the latter don't fulfill an agreement signed between the two parties last year.

The municipality has already filed a complaint for a breach of contract at the Waling Ward Police Office against Kobold, his former aide Roshan Ghimire and Nepal Experience Films, the company with which it had signed the agreement last March.

As per the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two parties, the municipality paid Nepal Experience Films $20,000 for its project: the fire truck expedition, which was pitched as a charitable initiative to bring donated second-hand fire trucks from...