Another Marwari kidnapped in Nepal

KATHMANDU: Panic has gripped Kathmandu’s Marwari community as a yet another businessman belonging to it has been abducted from the capital, taking the number of kidnappings in three months to at least 35.

Manoj Rathi, the son of a former chief engineer in the Nepal government’s road construction department and a prominent Lions’ Club member Satyanarayan Rathi, was forcibly taken away along with his car from near his residence in the capital on Friday.

On Saturday, Rathi’s family received a call from the kidnappers, asking for ransom and warning them not to go to police.