MAHENDRANAGAR: A case has been filed at Kanchanpur district court against police officials accusing them of inflecting torture on the victim’s family and committing grave negligence in the course of investigation.
The case had been filed at the Kanchanpur district court against eight police personnel including former SP Dilip Bista.
Those implicated in the torture charge include then SP Bista, DSP Gyan Bahadur Sethi, DSP Angur GC of CIB, Inspector of Kanchanpur District Ekendrea Khadka.
Similarly, Jagadish Bhatta, Sub Inspectors Hari Singh Dhami, Ram Singh Dhami, Police Constable Chandani have been charged for destroying evidences in the course of investigation.
With the case filed at the district court, police have started investigation by taking six people under control.
Those taken under control are Former DSP Gyan Bahadur Sethi, Inspectors Ekendra Khadka and Jagadhish Bhattarai, Sub Inspector Ram Singh Dhami and Ram Singh Dhami, police constable Chandani Saud have been taken under control, informed Kanchanpur Police.
They were produced at the court after the case was filed. It is learnt that former SP Bista and DSP GC of CIB who have been mentioned as defendants at large.
KATHMANDU: A cadre of Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand sustained injuries when police opened fire on him at Shiwaraj Municipality-9 of Kapilvastu district yesterday.
The wounded is identified as Durga Bahadur Rokka. The incident occurred during police attempt to raid the house of Rokka, a suspect of Ncell tower torching.
Rokka got injured as he tried to run away during police search, according to Achyut Pudasaini, Superintendent of Police. Police recovered two automatic guns, its three magazines and a Chinese pistol. Rokka, who sustained leg injuries, is undergoing treatment at Butwal Hospital.
NEPALGUNJ: Police have arrested two Indian nationals with Rs 3.5 million from Pasang Lhamu road section of Banke district.
A police team deployed from District Police Office, Banke arrested 30-year-old Rabischandra Pandey and Chhotu Tiwari of Jaminah Chhoti Bhansar, India with the aforesaid cash at Nepalgunj Sub Metropolitan City-11, said Police Inspector Dipak Malla.
Police took them under control while they were traveling on a bike with an Indian plate, UP 32 Ga 8244. Police said they are investing the case after taking them under control.
KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has extended her best wishes to the entire Buddhists at home and abroad on the occasion of Gyalpo Lhosar, a new year celebrated by the Buddhists and Sherpa community in particular.
“May this festival bring happiness, peace, prosperity and good health and enhance unity and harmony among all Nepalis. Such festival is helpful in strengthening mutual relations among Nepalis. It may spread a message of peace and fraternity across the country,” she said in a message of best wishes.
KANCHANPUR: Nepali Congress vice president Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar has said that even though the government’s slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’ is admirable, implementing it is challenging.
Speaking at a press conference in Kanchanpur today, Gachchhadar, however, blamed the government of failing to move towards that end. He said it is not possible to fulfil the government’s dream if it continued to move ahead in the current manner.
KATHMANDU: The Meteorological Forecasting Division today said that the weather in the country’s hilly region would be affected as the pre-monsoon holds sway for three months.
It said the three months — March, April and May – will be affected by the weather in most parts of the hilly region.
According to the Division, the pre-monsoon has already begun. Local winds have started to have its influence.
The Division has further said that rainfall will take place for short period of time. It said some areas of the Kathmandu Valley will witness rainfall.
KATHMANDU: Irked by the government’s ‘working style and apathy’ towards the party, the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) today withdrew its support to the KP Oli-led government.
A meeting of the party’s presidium held today in Kathmandu made the decision soon after the Kailali District Court gave its verdict on Tikapur incident, Rajendra Mahato, leader of RJP-N told Khabarhub.
The third largest party in the House of Representatives (HoR), the RJP-N withdrew its support to the government expressing discontent over the government’s indifference.
The district court sentenced RJP-N lawmaker Resham Chaudhary and 10 others to life imprisonment.
The RJP-N had been pressing the Oli government to withdraw the case filed against its lawmaker Chaudhary, the alleged key schemer of the Tikapur carnage of August 2015.
To recall the Tikapur incident, eight police personnel, including an SSP of Nepal Police, and a toddler were lynched during a protest rally organized by the Tharus of Tikapur expressing disenchantment over the constitution draft in August 2015.
The third largest party in the House of Representatives (HoR), the RJP-N, having 25 seats, withdrew its support to the government expressing discontent over the government’s indifference and the latter’s failure to address their concern.
The party had been expressing disenchantment over the government alleging the latter of not heeding to the voices raised by the party, including the agenda of constitution amendment.
The party has said it would not go to the people while terming the court’s decision “unacceptable”.
The RJP-N said it lent its support to the Oli government to ensure a stable and strong government. “The government repeatedly ignored our voices,” Mahato said.
The party has also accused the government for failing to nab the criminals, including those involved in the rape and murder of Nirmala Pant of Kanchanpur.
Even though the party supported Prime Minister Oli to win the vote of confidence in the parliament in March 2018, it did not join the government.
KATHMANDU: Nepal Army (NA) have recovered a 9 mm pistol from the helicopter crash site in Tarebhir of Taplejung district.
The pistol, which was carried by Arjun Ghimire, the bodyguard of the late Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari, had gone missing in the crash site.
A team of Nepal Army recovered three magazines, three bullets and a mobile phone from the site.
A helicopter belonging to Air Dynasty crashed at Tarebhir in Taplejung on February 28, killing all seven people on board.
KATHMANDU: Lawmakers have suggested the government to hold talks with the agitating teachers to address their demands.
Speaking during today’s session of the House of Representatives (HoR), Nepal Communist Party lawmaker Khagaraj Adhikari urged the government to address the demands of the agitating teachers through talks. The voices of the temporary teachers, he argued, should not be left unheeded.
Nepali Congress lawmaker Bal Krishna Khand raised concern over the high-handedness of the police in the peaceful demonstration of the teachers. He warned the government to refrain from suppressing the teachers.
Lawmaker Mahendra Raya Yadav said that the government should provide treatment expenses to teachers, who have been injured in the course of clash with the police.
Similarly, lawmakers, including Jip Tshiring Lama, Nar Bahadur Dhami, among others drew the government’s attention to resolve the problems of temporary teachers.