Kathmandu, June 29: Prateek Thapa, son of ex-home minister and UML vice chairman Ram Bahadur Thapa is arrested by the Nepal Police from Baidha on Friday. Prateek, went underground after the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the Nepal Police opened a file on the fake Bhutanese refugee scandal. Even when the then home minister Balkrishna Khand, deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and other senior officials were arrested on the charge of developing a plan for sending Nepalis to the USA under covered with fake Bhutanese refugees, the Police was unable to arrest Prateek. Prateek, personal secretary of the then-home minister Rambahadur Thapa, was out of police reach since the CIB opened the file. Prateek was on the list of disappeared for the last 14 months. The Police said that Prateek was hiding in unknown places in Siliguri and Deharadoon in India and secretly visiting Kathmandu time and again. The Police were informed that for the last three months, he was hiding in Kathmandu. Following the information acquired by the Police, he was arrested from Kapan in Kathmandu. Prateek was accused of facilitating the file for sending Nepali youths in sending the USA as fake Bhutanese refugees by taking cash when his father was the home minister. The CIB is preparing to file a case against Prateek on the charge of fraud and developing fake documents by misusing government documents. On Sunday, the Police are preparing to present Prateek at the District Court for keeping him under the police custody for further investigation. People's News Monitoring Service.