Three Indian nationals arrested for looting a car after beating its owner

By Chandani Acharya, Kailali, June 27: Three Indian nationals who looted a car after beating its owner who had given them a lift have been arrested.

Bed Prakash Joshi, Deputy Superintendent of Police and spokesperson of the Kailali district police office, said that the looted car has been found along with the arrest of the looters.

The police were mobilised after the information about the looting of the car. The vehicle was recovered from a lane leading to Shantinagar from Pathak Oil Store in Godavari Municipality-1.

The looters have been arrested and identified as Bhagat Singh, 21, Sahil Badlise, 17, and Sanni Aaut, 20. The trio came from Sonipath of Haryana, India, and they were hiding in the jungle at Godavari Municipality-1, near the place from where the car was recovered.

The car was left stranded.

The police said an additional investigation into the arrested is underway.

Lokendra Singh Bhandari, a computer operator at Aalital Rural Municipality in Dadeldhura district was looted along with his private car.

Bhandari had given them a lift upon their request from Mahendra Nagar to Khani Danda. But, on the way, when they arrived at Godavari Municipality-4, the looters asked Bhandari to stop the car for taking some photos. They lured Bhandari some 50 meters away from the point where the car was stopped and started to beat him and tie him with a rope. After beating and forcing him to get his hands and legs tied, the looters had left Bhandari, a resident of Bedkot Municipality-3 in Kanchanpur district, in the roadside jungle.

Nanda Ram Devkota, a local of Godavari, had spotted Bhandari and called the police for a rescue.