Army Staff of the Nepali Army, General Pyar Jung Thapa.
(File photo)

Four lawyers representing Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON)—a leading rights group—have filed separate cases at the Supreme Court on Tuesday demanding that the court order the government to suspend Chief of the Army Staff of the Nepali Army, General Pyar Jung Thapa, acting Inspector General of Armed Police Force (APF) Basudev Oli and deputy Inspector General of APF Dilip Kumar Shrestha.

In their writ petitions, general secretary of HURON Baburam Giri and others demanded that the government suspend the trio “as they were involved in suppressing the people’s movement and were likely to tamper with evidence against them if they continued in office.” They argued that it was inappropriate on part of the government to suspend chiefs of Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and National Investigation Department but to let General Thapa, Oli and Shrestha continue in office.

Prime Minister G P Koirala, Home Minister K P Sitaula, CoAS Thapa, Oli and Shrestha have been made defendants in the case.

A high-level commission led by former Justice at the Supreme Court, Krishna Jung Rayamajhi, is also probing into atrocities committed against peaceful demonstrators during the people’s movement 2006.