Kathmandu, Nepal: A youth named Baikuntha Belabase, originally from Siddara VDC of Arghakhanchi district has been arrested by the Nepal Police here in Kathmandu on the charge of extorting money from commoners and businesspersons in the guise of a commander of an armed group.
Nepal Police have said that Belabase was nabbed from Manamaiju of Kathmandu based rented room. He had been extorting money projecting him to be the commander of an underground armed group named Al-Qaida World Organization South Asia and Nepal (AQWOSAN).
Police have a claim that he had not only been extorting money in the guise of AQWOSAN commander but also the several other pseudo armed groups such as Armed Defense Army Force and Tiger Liberation Front with different names like Agni Jwala, Bibash, Ashina and among others.
