Incident Reports

Two People arrested over extortion in Makwanpur

2015-07-01

Bagmati, Makawanpur, Hetauda

Makawanpur police filed a case against four people for extorting money by stopping a truck carrying. According to police they took hostage driver and co-driver of the truck and demanded ransom with the truck's owner. Of the four involved in the case, police have arrested only two men so far. The arrested are Shankar Adhikari, of Hetaunda-1 and Bhuyat Thapa of Hetaunda-28. Police said they too into captive driver Ramesh Tokar of Dungrekhola-3 and co-driver Sunil Gautam of Chandranigahapur-8 at Hetauda, Lachka, while the truck was heading to Sarlahi from Nepalgunj. They demanded Rs 40,000 ransom with the truck owner after taking the truck 50 meters away from the highway, said DSP Shishu Sharma of District Police Office, Makawanpur
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Abduction
Weapons None
Primary Cause Kidnapping for ransom
Actor 1 - Number of people 4
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people 2
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Citizen/Individuals
Actor 2 - Youth na
Total Abducted 1
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