A group of Nepali photojournalists has called for the release of an Indian freelance \u00a0photographer in prison in Jhapa,\u00a0 Nepal since seven months for allegedly possessing printouts of $100 notes, which as per him would have “needed there for shooting a short film”.<\/p>\n
Resident of Salkia, West Bengal’s Howrah district Durlav Roy Chowdhury<\/strong>, 24, , worked for different news organisations as a freelance photographer. He also has a YouTube channel named “Snipper Monk Travels”.<\/p>\n He was arrested from Chandrargadi Airport in Jhapa, Nepal while he was visiting Nepal from Kolkata via the Siliguri and Kakarbhitta entry points, according to different reports from News Agencies.<\/p>\n Chowdhury, who identifies himself as a National Geographic contributor on his LinkedIn page, was arrested during a routine security check at the airport just before boarding domestic flight to Kathmandu.<\/p>\n During the search, Nepal police recovered 226 photocopies of US dollar 100 denomination bank notes.<\/p>\n Chowdhury was put in the Jhapa jail on charges of carrying fake foreign currency as per the \u00a0Jhapa District Court\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n The National Photo Journalists Group of Nepal has called for Chowdhury\u2019s release claiming that he is not linked to any fake currency scam.<\/p>\n As per sources, Chowdhury arrived in Nepal for the shooting of a short movie “Money is Nothing”\u00a0to be broadcasted on YouTube, as per his statement during the police investigation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group of Nepali photojournalists has called for the release of an Indian freelance \u00a0photographer in prison in Jhapa,\u00a0 Nepal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[172,175,174,176,173],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}