Kathmandu, 28 November: The police arrested a gang on the charge of being involved in honey trap by calling the pharmacy owner to her room under the pretext of dressing the wound.
Among those arrested are 25-year-old Samridhi Magar, resident of Mai Municipality-1, Ilam and currently residing in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality-5 Nayathimi, Bhaktapur, Dipendra Darji, 30, resident of Bhumlu Rural Municipality-4, Kavre and currently residing in Kathmandu Metropolitan Municipality-15 Swayambhu, and Bhumlu Rural Municipality-4, Kavre. Currently, 26-year-old Barsha Darji, who lives in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality-5 Nayathimi, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office. Teku Information Officer and Superintendent of Police Kajikumar Acharya informed.
He said, “The person who was planning to provide medical services with the intention of making a criminal profit was contacted online for wound dressing by the tailor, and when she was alone in the room, accused of having physical contact with her, and showed fear that he would be implicated in the case of coercion. Bargaining from Rs. 18 lakhs to Rs. 8 lakhs. She was arrested on the basis of information that she had recovered the amount by saying that he would pay eight lakh.”
The police said that the Darji had messaged the victim through social media messenger saying that she had a wound on her leg and had to come for dressing, and when the victim went to the Darji’s room, there was no injury on her leg and the Darji closed the door and kept the victim in the room. Similarly, when the victim opened the door and went out, another woman named Samriddhi Magar came inside the room and threatened to get involved in the case of forced to rape or come to an agreement.
On the morning of 26th of November, Dipendra Darji and Samridhi Magar took Rs. 25,000 in cash and deposited in the QR of Siddhartha bank, Information officer Acharya said that a cheque of Rs 75,000 was taken from the same place and that one person is currently absconding.
One cheque of 75 thousand rupees issued in the name of NIC Asia Bank, 1 cash of one thousand rupees and 39 cash of 500 rupees, totaling 20 thousand five hundred rupees, four mobile phones of different companies were recovered from the arrested persons. According to the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office Teku, there is a person who was arrested by District Police Office Kavre in the year 2014 for (case of murder) and finished the sentence.
What is Honey Trap?
