Posted by: damikattu September 5, 2009
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Former Crown Prince Paras Shah has refuted reports in Indian news
media (and carried by some Nepali media) alleging him of being involved
in fake Indian currency note racket in association with notorious
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Issuing a press release on
Wednesday, Paras condemned the reports as 'false and malicious', adding
that "it is a condemnable propaganda directed against the sovereign
people of Nepal from a foreign land".
"He further said he was
seriously concerned with the 'fictitious and misleading' reports again
appearing in the Indian media against him "which were intended to
spread illusion in the minds of the Nepali people at large."
Shah,
who has been living mostly in Singapore since the fall of monarchy but
is in Kathmandu after the reports surfaced, further said he has been
"dragged into controversy taking advantage of the current fluid
political situation in the country even though I have been leading a
responsible and dutiful life as an ordinary Nepali citizen".
The
state should protect the rights of all Nepali citizens, including him,
who are staying outside the country and suffers such misleading
allegations, the statement reads.
On Monday, some Indian
newspapers claimed, based on the confessions of two Nepalis arrested
with fake notes in India, that ex-prince Shah was behind the fake
Indian currency racket. They also alleged his involvement with the
Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, and Mumbai underworld don,
Dawood Ibrahim.
media (and carried by some Nepali media) alleging him of being involved
in fake Indian currency note racket in association with notorious
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Issuing a press release on
Wednesday, Paras condemned the reports as 'false and malicious', adding
that "it is a condemnable propaganda directed against the sovereign
people of Nepal from a foreign land".
"He further said he was
seriously concerned with the 'fictitious and misleading' reports again
appearing in the Indian media against him "which were intended to
spread illusion in the minds of the Nepali people at large."
Shah,
who has been living mostly in Singapore since the fall of monarchy but
is in Kathmandu after the reports surfaced, further said he has been
"dragged into controversy taking advantage of the current fluid
political situation in the country even though I have been leading a
responsible and dutiful life as an ordinary Nepali citizen".
The
state should protect the rights of all Nepali citizens, including him,
who are staying outside the country and suffers such misleading
allegations, the statement reads.
On Monday, some Indian
newspapers claimed, based on the confessions of two Nepalis arrested
with fake notes in India, that ex-prince Shah was behind the fake
Indian currency racket. They also alleged his involvement with the
Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, and Mumbai underworld don,
Dawood Ibrahim.