Kathmandu, September 17

The Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, has forwarded the case related to Dugar Group to the Office of District Attorney, Kathmandu, today to file a case against the group at the court on charges of selling sub-standard products.

As per Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bel Pandey of the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, the police have prepared a chargesheet alleging Dugar Group to be involved in black-marketing and fraud.

“After completing our investigation we have forwarded the case to the Office of District Attorney today and it will be filed at the court on Monday,” DSP Pandey informed. The police have sought a fine of Rs 230 million from Dugar Group in connection to the case.

Likewise, if the court convicts Dugar Group under the fraud charges too that have been levelled against the group then concerned officials of the group will be jailed for a period of up to five years.

According to DSP Pandey, police have arrested four people associated with Dugar Group — Madan Babu Pande, Pramod Mehata, Shivaraj Pokhrel and an Indian citizen Gabrial Rapan. However, including Malchand Dugar, vice-chairman of Dugar Group, seven other people involved in the case are still at large.

An inspection carried out by the police and the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, on August 29, had found Dugar’s factory in Satungal using date-expired mango pulp, an ingredient used to produce Frooti, a popular fruit juice. The team had destroyed 400 containers of mango pulp with each container containing 223 kg of mango pulp.