{"id":33176,"date":"2026-07-21T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/?p=33176"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:00:08","slug":"dipak-bhattarai-and-irfan-dewan-arrested-for-issuing-fake-cheques-to-bank-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/33176","title":{"rendered":"Dipak Bhattarai and Irfan Dewan arrested for issuing fake cheques to bank accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Two persons have been arrested in connection with a banking fraud case. Two people have been slapped with a fine of Rs 15.41 lakh. <\/p>\n<p>The arrested have been identified as Dipak Bhattarai of Khotang and Irfan Dewan of Sarlahi. <\/p>\n<p>A police team deputed from the District Police Range, Lalitpur arrested them acting on a tip-off and presented them before the court for execution of the verdict. <\/p>\n<p>Bhattarai was sentenced to 12 days in jail and a fine of Rs 1,261,000 while Dewan was sentenced to five days in jail and a fine of Rs 2.80 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Two persons have been arrested in connection with a banking fraud case. Two people have been slapped with a fine of Rs 15.41 lakh. The arrested have been identified as Dipak Bhattarai of Khotang and Irfan Dewan of Sarlahi. A police team deputed from the District Police Range, Lalitpur arrested them acting on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,123,126,129,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-en","category-banking-update-en","category-banking-news-en","category-special-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/arrested-1.jpg","publishedDateNp":"\u096b \u0936\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0923 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u092e\u0902\u0917\u0932\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096a:\u0969\u096f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33177,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176\/revisions\/33177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}