Armymen including Captain suspended for torturing policemen

July 30, 2006
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Nearly three dozen army men including Captain Rabindra Bikram Rana of the Bhairavnath Battalion of the Nepal Army involved in torturing three policemen in the capital on Saturday morning have been suspended.

According to reports, the Defense Ministry has also directed to detain them for interrogation.

Likewise, the Defense Ministry formed a five-member probe committee headed by the Joint Secretary at the Ministry, Kashi Nath Sharma.

Other members of the team are, Joint Secretary at the Home Ministry, Baman Prasad Neupane, Joint Attorney Raj Narayan Pathak, Colonel Nirendra Aryal, and Senior Superintendent of Police Krishna Prasad Shrestha.

Meanwhile, The NA, too, has constituted a “General Military Court” headed by Major General Yadav Bahadur Rayamajhi to investigate the incident.

A group of nearly two dozen soldiers led by Captain Rabindra Bikram Rana severely beat and tortured Police Inspector Ram Bahadur KC, Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Dharmendra Raya and driver Dil Bahadur Tamang after taking them forcibly to the battalion.

The incident took place at around 2 a.m. on Saturday in front of the Sanchaykosh building at Thamel—a popular tourist area—following an argument between Captain Rana and a police team on patrol over the issue of a wrongly parked vehicle.

Captain Rana and his aides misbehaved with the police team when the police notified them that their vehicle, a red Gipsy, was parked in the wrong way in the main road. A friend of Rana was taken under control by the police when he started punching the policemen and was taken to the Durbar Marg police station. Rana escaped arrest but returned to the police station with a group of armed soldiers, took police officers in the Battalion and tortured them.