Kathmandu — Yuvraj Paudel, widely known on social media as Yuvraj Safal, has been arrested by police on charges of publishing defamatory and unsubstantiated content online. Police said Paudel allegedly made offensive, abusive, and factually unsupported remarks targeting the Office of the Attorney General and the Attorney General through social media platforms and various media outlets.
Following the dissemination of those statements, the Office of the Attorney General sent a letter to police on Magh 8 requesting that legal action be initiated against him. After receiving the request, police reviewed videos and posts shared on social media and determined that Paudel had uploaded content containing baseless allegations directed at the Attorney General and the institution, authorities said.
He was subsequently taken into custody, and police obtained a three-day remand from the Kathmandu District Court to continue the investigation, according to Pawan Kumar Bhattarai, information officer at the District Police Range, Kathmandu.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and is focused on the digital material circulated and its legal implications.
Yuvraj Safal had criticized the Attorney General after the office authorized the government attorney to withdraw two cases—related to cooperative fraud—against Rabi Lamichhane, J.V. Rai, and Chhabilal Joshi, among other accused individuals.
