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Sunil Sharma waves to the crowd after being arrested. Photo: Chandra Bahadur Ale Kathmandu, August 11 Police have taken Nepali Congress lawmaker Sunil Sharma into custody. A team from Nepal Police, Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) arrested him on August 10 on charges of fraud related to his education certificate, said Nepal Police spokesperson DIG Kuber Kadayat. The CIB has also informed the Federal Parliament Secretariat about Sharma’s arrest. Chief of CIB AIG Kiran Bajracharya has written to the speaker of the House of Representatives about why Sharma had been arrested. Sharma, who was elected from Morang 3 under the first-past-the-post electoral system from the Nepali Congress, has been arrested in accordance with the law. This action was taken due to the need for an investigation into a charge related to a fake certificate of academic qualification, says the CIB. CIB says Sharma’s I.Sc. certificate had not been verified by the National Examinations Board located in Sano...