KATHMANDU, MARCH 7

Police have arrested nine people on the charge of swindling people on the pretext of providing them jobs through their job centres in different places in Kathmandu valley.

Among the arrested are Amar Pandey, 26, and Tilak Ram Pandey, 32, of Chhatradev, Arghakhanchi; Anand Maratha, 22, of Dudhpokhari, Lamjung; Bibek Yadav, 23, of Siraha; Aswin Rai, 28, of Siddhicharan Municipality, Okhaldhunga; Ghanashya Pahadi, 22, of Fikkal in Sindhupalchowk; Srijana Lamichhance, 25, of Chandrapur, Rautahat; Gyanu Neupane, 40, of Biratnagar; and Rambachan Kumar Yadav, 22, of Maulapur in Rautahat.

Police raided their offices today after people complained that they were deceived by the socalled job providers. Later, Metropolitan Police Crime Division issued a press release saying the swindlers would charge them Rs 500 to Rs 6,000 to ensure them job.

At first, they asked the job-seekers to fill up a form to receive certain amount. Later, they demanded more money to guarantee job, police said in a statement. Moreover, the thugs did not provide them job even after job seekers paid over Rs 6,000 to guarantee them job. Instead, they asked the job-seekers to seek another job and hunt various offices which would again charge them extra.

A version of this article appears in the print on March 8, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.