KATHMANDU: Police on Friday arrested singer Prakash Ojha, who was absconding after being convicted of paedophilia, from Shankhamul of Kathmandu.

The Supreme Court on January 17 had convicted him of two human trafficking cases and handed down a five-year sentence for each.

A team deployed from the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police had nabbed him while he was engaged in the recording of some songs in disguise from Shankhamul area of the Capital.

The Court had made the verdicts in response to the appeals registered against the decisions of the then Biratnagar Appellate Court, which had acquitted him of the crime.

The apex court had observed that Ojha (now 43), a permanent resident of Itahari-4 in Sunsari district, had forced three minor girls to have unnatural sexual contacts with him for two years since 2002.

In addition, he had captured photographs and videos of sexual acts with the minors and posted them on websites to make money, the Court had remarked.

He would show the pictures and videos to the victims and threaten them not to make the issue public repeatedly.

Meanwhile, police produced him before the Kathmandu District Court seeking execution of the sentences. The Court, accordingly, sent him to the Sundhara-based Central Jail.

Ojha was an emerging and popular comedian and singer in the Nepali entertainment industry in the early 2000s.

However, within few years, he was accused of paedophilia, and it cost him his name and fame.

While being tried for the cases also, Ojha was reported to have produced some music videos.