Seizure of financed vehicle hiring goons: Police want bank employee
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POKHARA, FEB 03 -
Police on Thursday filed a ‘robbery case’ against a Prime Bank employee and another person for allegedly employing goons to seize a financed vehicle.
The case was filed against Ananta Chapagain, the bank’s head of consumer loan department, and Rabin Gurung, aka ‘Bhaale’, of Pokhara-17 after an initial investigation on the complaint lodged by loanee Til Bahadur Poudel Chhetri.
Poudel has claimed that the goons ‘employed by the bank’ seized his Toyota Hilux pick-up (Ba 8 Cha 8386) at gunpoint.
Superintendent of Police Yadav Raj Khanal, chief of Kaski District Police Office, said they have written to the Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka to arrest Chapagain, while the police are searching for Gurung the seized vehicle. Gurung was released on bail two months ago in a case related to public offense.
“I asked Chapagain on Wednesday to return back the seized vehicle by Thursday, but he failed to do so,” said Khanal. “That’s why we decided to file the case.”
According to the police, Chapagain had assigned a person having surname Lamsal to seize the vehicle and the goons are believed to be Lamsal’s men. Prime Bank CEO Narayan Das Manandhar has denied the allegations, saying that loaness have a tendency to exaggerate things when banks make efforts to recover loans.
The vehicle was seized a day after the bank published a 35-day notice in a newspaper, asking Poudel to clear his loans. Poudel, who is the director of Laxmi Car Decoration in Kuleshwor, Kathmandu, has said he had taken the loan nine months ago from the bank’s central office in New Road, Kathmandu. Poudel has also said he has cleared seven out nine installments, and was committed to clear the remaining. According to Poudel, the bank had financed Rs 2.7 million for the vehicle worth Rs 3.99 million. Poudel also runs a restaurant named ‘Fewa Wood Rock’ in Pokhara.
Posted on: 2012-02-03 09:19
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