KATHMANDU: Police have arrested a person on the charge of extorting money from businesspersons from different places of Kathmandu Valley.

Police arrested Baikuntha Belbase (41) of Siddhara VDC-3 in Arghakhanchi district on October 4, currently residing at Manamaiju of the Capital recently.

According to the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Belbase had been accused of threatening and collecting money from businesspersons and others posing himself as a commander of various armed outfits.

Belbase had spent more than two years in jail for his connection with an abduction case and was released on September 13 last year.

Police said that they confiscated a number of SIM cards and letters used to threaten people and Rs 150,000 cash from his possession.

Meanwhile, the MPCD sent him to the Teku-based Metropolitan Police Range for further investigation.