HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: Unknown internet and mobile phone users approaching you in chatrooms or by SMS with sexual advances? If yes, then think twice, they may be fraudsters trying to rob you.
This trend came to light after one unsuspecting Ananta Prasad Mehata of Kupondole fell victim to a woman a couple of weeks ago.
Nilima Bastola (19) from Itahari-4, Sunsari, would circulate illicit messages through internet and SMS and offer marriage and sex to unknown recipients.
Mehata realised the fraud after Bastola and Mehata decided to meet at Naya Bazaar and go on a date.
Eventually, she, backed by one of her associates, robbed him after taking him to her rented room.
“We met at Naya Bazaar and she took me to her rented room,” Mehata recounted.
“Once we entered the room, she asked me to produce everything I had and leave the place or she would call the police on rape attempt. I also found her to have hired a man to issue death threats to unsuspecting individuals.”
Bastola and her associate, Yogendra Khanal (29) of Kirtipur, made off with Mehata’s mobile phone set worth Rs 35,000.
Inspector Shiv Bahadur Singh, in-charge of Metropolitan Police Sector, Lainchaur, said the fraudsters were arrested on Thursday acting on a complaint lodged by the victim.
“We approached the fraudsters feigning to be clients and arrested them,” he informed adding that they were operating a clandestine racket by luring young men to their room. Bastola and Khanal have been charged with fraud.
The police said they are investigating how many people had fallen victim.
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