November 11: The Kathmandu District Court has remanded industrialist Roop Jyoti in custody for five more days. The court has also granted the police to investigate his daughter Suruchi in custody for five days.

District Court Judge Om Prakash Aryal issued the order on Sunday after the arrest of the duo in connection to a fraud case in land transaction. Police had arrested former state minister Jyoti and his daughter from Tribhuvan International Airport on Thursday while they were returning home from Singapore.

Jyoti has been accused of cheating Rs 13.6 million rupees in a land transaction case filed by Bigendra Krishna Malla. The district court had ordered his arrest about one year ago but Jyoti moved the Supreme Court. The apex court had issued an interim order not to arrest Jyoti. But the police finally arrested him after the Supreme Court last week vacated the interim order.