Kathmandu, May 15: The Kathmandu district court has permitted Nepal police to keep CPN (UML) secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi in custody for investigation for three days.
The police arrested Rayamajhi Sunday evening in connection to his involvement in the plot to send Nepalis to the USA under the cover of Bhutanese refugees by taking money from the Nepalis.
UML leader Rayamajhi was presented at the court for adding period to investigate him with regard to his involvement in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam.
Shankar Paudel, advocate at the Kathmandu district court, informed that the police was given a period of three days to keep Rayamajhi in custody for investigation.
An arrest warrant was issued against Rayamajhi on May 3. However, he absconded and the police nabbed him 11 days after the warrant on May 14 from a house at Budhanilakantha in Kathmandu.
Earlier, the police arrested NC leader and former Home Minister Balkrishna Khand, former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pande to investigate for their involvement in the same case.
