According to Manange, he came to be noticed by authorities after he beat up the then Crown Prince Dipendra's aide-de-camp, and was eventually forced to close the club.
Manange was arrested on 31 March 2005 charged with attempted murder; he was released from prison on 5 February 2007.
[7] Manange was found guilty of assault in a separate incident and sentenced to a year in prison in 2008.
After serving a month, he managed to get himself released by successfully petitioning that he was Rajiv Gurung, not Deepak Manange (the named accused).
[8] Manange sought political protection and found favour with Pashupati Shamsher JBR of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP).
[6] In the 2017 local elections, RPP and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN UML) fielded joint candidates for Kathmandu city.
The party's official candidate withdrew later, and the Left Alliance[b] supported Manange, who had filed his candidacy as an independent.
[13] Manange was again arrested on 23 January 2020 after the Kaski District Chairperson of All Nepal Football Association filed a First Information Report (FIR) against him alleging that he had verbally abused and beaten him during a public event two days earlier.
[14] He was appointed sports minister for the provincial government on 29 April 2021, in an effort by the ruling CPN UML to secure support for chief minister Prithvi Subba Gurung's government, amid political turmoil in the aftermath of the 2020–21 dissolution and reinstatement of the Parliament of Nepal.