Kathmandu, Sep 3 - Nepal's self-exiled former crown prince Paras, who returned home from Singapore this week, has rejected reports in the Indian media alleging a nexus between him and Pakistan-based terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim.

The 38-year-old, according to the Republica daily, issued a brief statement late Wednesday, condemning the media reports as 'false and malicious'. However, it was ignored by Nepal's mainstream media that had ignored the Indian allegations too.

The pony-tailed former crown prince, who told the Singapore media that he was doing his own grocery shopping and cooking in the island state and enjoying it, was said to have been furious when he returned to Kathmandu Tuesday to spend the Dashain festival with his family and found himself the target of reports saying he was Dawood's partner in a fake Indian currency network.

Paras said he was seriously concerned about the 'imaginary and fictitious' reports that were another instance of a 'well-orchestrated and condemnable propaganda directed against the sovereign people of Nepal from a foreign land'.