Kathmandu, Jan. 17 -- On Saturday evening, Hari Khadka, 19, was riding his Honda Dio scooter along the Bhrikutimandap-Durbarmarg road stretch. He was returning from Sarkarki Dhara, where he had dropped off a Tootle customer, and was heading towards Hotel Annapurna in Durbarmarg to pick up his brother.

Just a few hundred metres away from the hotel, he had parked his scooter to check the map, just to make sure that he was on the right way to the hotel. Just when he put his phone back into his pocket, he saw a man in front of him, who asked him "if he was from Tootle". When Khadka replied positively, seven men came forward and nagged him.

The men, whom he later identified as taxi drivers, surrendered Khadka to the police who then confiscat...