POKHARA: Kaski police on Monday arrested a couple from Parsyang, Pokhara-5 on charges of printing and circulating fake currency.

The arrestees -- Naresh Lama (32) and his wife Saraswati Balami (25) of Hetauda, Makanwanpur -- were nabbed from an apartment they rented in possession of 19 counterfeit banknotes of Rs 1,000 denomination.

In the raid, police recovered a colour printer, laptop, mobile top-up cards of Nepal Telecom and Ncell worth Rs 90,000 and two fake Indian banknotes of IRs 500.

The husband and wife duo came under police scanners after local groceries reported of a couple who paid in counterfeit notes in exchange of top-up cards, according to police.