Nepal: CIB arrest ‘Buddha Boy’, confiscate millions of rupees

Jan 10, 2024

Kathmandu (Nepal), Jan 10 (ANI): The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has confiscated 30.3 million Nepali rupees and 3.092 million in foreign currencies from the arrested "Buddha Boy" in Kathmandu. The on-the-run controversial spiritual leader Ram Bahadur Bomjan was arrested by the CIB from a house on the outskirts of Kathmandu on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the police made the controversial spiritual leader public. The 34-year-old, originally named as Ram Lal Bomjan who since 2005 has been known as "Buddha Boy" or reincarnation of Gautam Buddha, is charged with rape and forceful disappearance at various police stations in the Himalayan Nation. Issuing a press release on Wednesday, the police stated that a key to an SUV, billbooks of three two-wheelers, and multiple electronic devices--laptops, pen drives, iPads, and tablets, mobile phones--were also seized during the search. The Police later on the day flew Bomjan to Sarlahi District Court for further hearing where a trial is set to start.