By Nayak Paudel
Kathmandu, Aug. 21: The Metropolitan Crime Division Wednesday arrested an Indian national on charge of cheating millions of rupees from several individuals in different parts of the country with fake documents and identity from Setipakha, Lalitpur.
The division identified the individual as 39-year-old Ravi Kumar Singh aka Sher Singh, a resident of Shimla, India. His arrest was made public only on Thursday through a statement.
Police were searching for Singh for a few months after receiving complaint from Lazimpat-based Royal Hydro Construction Pvt. Ltd.

However, a long list of cases of stealing of vehicles and cheating millions of rupees came forth after his arrest. "We arrested Singh on Wednesday and a preliminary investigation led us to a series of similar cheatings he had done over the past couple of years. Singh used fake documents to prove his fake identity and used it to cheat people," said Superintendent of Police (SP) and spokesperson for the division Krishna Prasad Koirala.
As per the division, Singh had cheated Mahendra Kumar Shrestha in Butwal. Singh identified himself as an official with a sub-contract of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited to cut trees on the side of Butwal-Narayangadh road section.

"Shrestha was assured 40 per cent profit if he joined hand with Singh in the project. Shrestha then provided Rs. 4.3 million to Singh, who disappeared after receiving the money," reads the statement.
In another incident happened in Lumbini Sanskritik Municipality of Rupandehi two years ago, Singh identified himself as managing director of Anjuli Constructions to rent Maruti Suzuki's Swift Dzire (Ba 12 Cha 3859) owned by Krishna Bahadur Gurung. Singh had proposed Rs. 90,000 as a monthly rent for the car.

However, Singh disappeared with the car and came to Bhaktapur. He then provided fake documents of the car and gave the vehicle to Pradip Ray in exchange of Rs. 835,000.
Singh also took Dominar-400 motorcycle of Krishna Hari Gautam, owner of Jadibuti-based Churiyamai Enterprises in January. Singh had agreed to buy the motorcycle with Rs. 330,000 but only provided Rs. 30,000 in advance and disappeared with the vehicle later.

Similarly, he also went to Dhanusha and came into contact with Pradip Kumar Shah, owner of New Shah Enterprises identifying himself as founding chairman of Lazimpat-based Royal Hydro Construction Pvt. Ltd. He assured Shah to pay a rent of Rs. 150,000 for Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza (State 3-01-023-Cha-0050) owned by Shah.
Shah got aware of being cheated after Singh disappeared with the car. Singh was arrested with the car from Lalitpur.
Singh then also cheated over Rs. 10 million from multiple individuals by faking his identity as the managing director of Royal Hydro Construction Pvt. Ltd. It was then the real managing director of the company Surendra Bahadur Shahi and Prem Bahadur Shahi filed a complaint at the division.

"Singh had a fake Nepali citizenship issued from Kailali and had opened accounts in different banks which he used for cheating. He also had a fake driving license," said SP Koirala.
SP Koirala further informed that other victims were also coming in contact and asked other victims to reach out the nearest police office too. The victims are also from different parts of the country.
Singh has been handed over to the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu for further legal process.