Kathmandu. Sanjay alias Dumbar Khatiwada, who is in pre-trial detention on the charge of demanding money from a woman saying that he is going to become the ambassador of South Korea, has also been ordered to be kept in custody by the Patan High Court.
It is alleged that Khatiwada married a woman and then took her as his wife to South Korea to do business. During that time, it is mentioned in the complaint that he was going to become the ambassador of South Korea and for that he had to pay 1 crore 75 lakh rupees to Speaker DP Aryal.
Khatiwada told the woman that she was the Speaker of the House. He said that 75 lakh rupees have been paid to Aryal and another one crore rupees is yet to be paid. The woman is said to be involved in the automobile business.
Meanwhile, Khatiwada was arrested for defrauding a woman of Nepalese origin living in the UK of Rs 42 lakh. He was arrested by the police on August 8 based on an online complaint. During the investigation, another woman also filed a complaint at the Kathmandu police station, claiming that she was cheated by him.
A case has been filed against Khatiwada for the offense of fraud under Section 249 (1) of the Civil Code, 2074 and the offense of not taking criminal benefit under Section 253 (1) and (2).
The Kathmandu District Court ordered him to be detained pending trial on October 6. On Thursday, the bench of Patan High Court judges Tejendra Prasad Sharma Sapkota and Narayan Prasad Subedi upheld the order of the district court on the petition filed against the said order.
With the order of the High Court, Khatiwada will remain in custody for the preliminary investigation until the final decision of the case.