Two Indian nationals among 4 nabbed for stealing over Rs 10. 34 million from Birgunj Nabil Bank

Police have arrested four persons including two Indian nationals for their alleged involvement in stealing over Rs 10. 34 million on Sunday night.

Police said that they have also recovered some cash of the total amount stolen from the bank.

Two Nepali nationals were apprehended from Rautahat and two from Ghodasahan of India.

According to a police source, one remaining person of the group involved in the theft is on the run and search for him is underway.

The arrestees have been identified as Sanjay Jayaswal and Chote Jayaswal of Pathara Budharam, Maulapur Municipality-7, Rautahat and Mantu Paswan and Lalan Kumar of Ghodasahan, East Champaran District, Bihar.

Police arrested Sanjay and Chote from Maulapur, Rautahat on Tuesday evening. Police nabbed the duo while they were heading towards Kathmandu in a night bus.

Both of them have been kept at the District Police Office, Parsa.

Similarly, Indian police detained Mantu and Lalan from Ghodasahan.

They are currently in the custody of Indian police.

According to a preliminary investigation, they had booked a room at the Naya Bus Park-based Ranipokhari Hotel in Birgunj in the name of Chote Lal Jayaswal and stayed there on Sunday before robbing the bank.

DSP Kumar Bikram Thapa, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Parsa, however, said that only two Nepali nationals were rounded up on suspicion of their involvement in the incident.

“So far, we have arrested two Nepali nationals. Their identities cannot be disclosed due to security reasons. We have got information that Indian police have also arrested a person in India also,” he said.

DSP Thapa confirmed that the police team recovered some cash of the total amount stolen from the bank .

Nabil Bank branch manager Bijay Paudel said that the incident occurred due to their sheer negligence as they did not keep a security guard in the bank during the night time.

In the video recorded in the CCTV camera, a group of four to five persons were seen entering the bank at Bypass Road in Birgunj by breaking the bolt of the main gate and decamping with the money, putting it in a sack.

According to branch manager Paudel, more than Rs 50 million was kept in the metal safe inside the bank’s vault.

But the thieves stole the money kept only in the tin box.