Four persons, including a Pakistani national, were today remanded into judicial custody after fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs 3.5 million were seized from them at a tourist hub near the Nepalese capital in January.
Kathmandu District Court sent them to prison in the two-month-old case, according to Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Circle.
The four were identified as Masud Aalam (37), a resident of Karachi, and three Nepalese men - Arjun Lamsal (31) and Sohel Khan (28) and 40-year-old Yunus Ansari, also known as the the kingpin of fake IC smuggling in Nepal.
They were arrested on January 23 from a guest house at Thamel, a tourist hub near Kathmandu, along with 3,500 fake notes of Rs 1,000 denominations.
The police arrested them when the counterfeit notes were being handed over by Aalam to his Nepalese partners. Aalam had reached Kathmandu with the fake notes on a Pakistan Airlines flight in January.
Ansari was freed from Kathmandu Central Jail just six months ago after serving a three-year sentence on a similar charge.
