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: 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.
For Resham Lal Chaudhary, the alleged key schemer of the Tikapur carnage of August 2015, the Kailali District Court’s verdict has perhaps given a jolt since he was ‘convinced’, as observers argue, that the government would withdraw the case against him. Observers, however, are equally worried about the repercussions in the political spectrum.
The Kailali District Court on Wednesday gave the long-awaited verdict, sentencing Chaudhary and 10 others to life imprisonment.
Recall the August 24, 2015-Tikapur incident when 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.
From this very day, Chaudhary, the alleged mastermind in the Tikapur incident, reportedly went into hiding more than two years.
Wednesday’s verdict has irked the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal because Chaudhary is an elected lawmaker representing RJP-N.
Consider what Rajendra Mahato, a presidium member of the party told Khabarhub: “The decision is unacceptable. People will give the final verdict from the streets.”
Mahato’s strong-worded remarks indicate gloomy days ahead in the political spectrum because he categorically termed the court’s decision “unacceptable”. If this is the case, Mahato said Prime Minister KP Oli, Nepal Communist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, too, be sent to the jail.
Laxman Lal Karna, leader of RJPN, too, is disgruntled with the government’s indifference on the issue “despite its assurances of withdrawing the case against Chaudhary”.
“We were earlier assured that the government would withdraw the criminal case against Chaudhary, who is our lawmaker,” Karna told Khabarhub.
Chaudhary, who had lodged his candidacy for the federal parliament through an agent, won the election by securing 34,341 votes cornering his competitors with a difference of around 19 thousand votes.
RJP-N, which has extended its support to the government, is in fact, riled at the latter’s adamant attitude. “It’s high time that RJP-N reconsidered its support to the government,” Karna said.
Earlier on February 26 last year, the Kailali District Court had decided to detain Chaudhary, who surrendered before the court, for ‘further investigation’. Since then, he has been behind bars at the Dilli Bazar Jail in Kathmandu.
It has to be recalled that the Supreme Court, too, had refused to release Chaudhary, who is also a singer and a journalist.
Interestingly, Chaudhary was also sworn in as House of Representatives member on January 3, 2019, even though his case was sub-judice. Despite this, he was not allowed to participate in the parliamentary proceedings.
KATHMANDU: The decision to slap a life imprisonment to Resham Lal Chaudhary, the alleged key schemer of the Tikapur carnage of August 2015, has infuriated the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN).
Rajendra Mahato, a presidium member of the Rastriya Janata Party, has threatened to hit the streets against the decision saying that the issue will be taken to people’s court. “Let the people decide,” Mahato told Khabarhub.
Stating that no court is above the people’s court, Mahato warned of serious consequences if the government failed to pardon Chaudhary. “We have lost our patience. The only way out now is to go for a stringent agitation.”
KATHMANDU: Eleven murder-accused including lawmaker of Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) Resham Lal Chaudhary have been sentenced to life in prison.
Hearing the case filed against Chaudhary on Tikapur incident, on Wednesday, a single bench of judge Parshu Ram Bhattarai issued the verdict sentencing them to life in prison.
Others facing the sentence are Harinarayan Chaudhary, Rajkumar Kathariya, Sundar Lal Kathariya, Brij Mohan Dagaura, Rajesh Chaudhary, Bir Bahadur Chaudhary, Pradeep Chaudhary, Sitaram Chaudhary alias Bidroha, Shrawan Chaudhary and Ganga Ram Chaudhary.
Out of the 11 murdered-accused, the court has slapped a 10-year-jail term on Shrawan Chaudhary on his age aground.
Police had filed a murder case against Chaudhary, lawmaker of Rastriya Janata Party Nepal, for his involvement in the Tikapur incident in which eight persons including SP Laxman Neupane and a minor were killed on August 29, 2015.
Chaudhary was elected to the House of Representatives from Kailali Constituency -1. He had taken the oath of office and secrecy on January 3, 2019.
Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli visited Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center (MCVTC) under the TU Teaching Hospital as part of his regular health checkup today, according to Bishu Poudel, general secretary of the Nepal Communist Party.
KATHMANDU: Presidents of 56 districts on Tuesday morning warned of stringent protests if the Nepali Congress leadership did not comply with the Mahasamiti decisions in its letter and spirit.
The district presidents have accused the party leadership of violating the decisions taken by the Mahasamiti meeting.
The Mahasamiti meeting, the highest policy making body of the Nepali Congress, held from January 3 to January 23 in Kathmandu, had decided that a member of House of Representatives (HoR) should be elected from the lower level and that the lawmaker through proportional representation (PR) should not be elected twice.
The disgruntled presidents accused the Central Working Committee of violating the decisions taken by the Mahasamiti meeting.
Following are the district presidents from 56 districts taking part in protest:
Province 1
Province 2
Province 3
Province 4
Province 5
Province 6
Province 7
KATHMANDU: The Parliamentary Hearing Committee (PHC) on Tuesday approved the names of the proposed chairpersons of four commissions.
A meeting of the PHC unanimously approved names for the Chairpersons of four commissions, including the National Inclusive Commission, National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, Madhesi Commission, and the Tharu Commission, PHC Chairperson Laxman Lal Karna informed.
It should be noted that the Constitutional Council (CC) had earlier recommended Shantaraj Subedi, former Secretary, as chair of National Inclusive Commission; Balananda Poudel as the chair of National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, Dr Bijay Kumar Dutta as chair of the Madhesi Commission and Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary as chair of Tharu Commission.
However, lawmakers of Nepali Congress, the main opposition in the PHC, abstained from today’s meeting expressing dissatisfaction over the CC’s decision of recommending the names.
JANAKPUR: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has alleged the government of failing to fulfil people’s aspiration in the last one year.
Deuba came down heavily on the government of involving in publicity rather than work while speaking at a program in Janakpur today.
NC President Deuba said the government was acting in a way intended to weaken federalism.
On the occasion, he claimed that the Nepali Congress has been playing an effective role of an opposition.
KATHMANDU: Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament, approved a proposal on ‘Province Public Service Commission (Basis and Standard Determination) Bill, 2075’.
The House approved the bill unanimously. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, had presented the bill on behalf of the Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli.
Presenting the proposal on the bill, Minister Dhakal said that the bill has been brought to enable the Public Service Commission to work in an easy manner at the province level. He added that the bill has provisions where the central Public Service Commission can provide advice and support to the provincial public service commissions. The bill also aims at bringing uniformity among the central and the provincial public service commissions.
Lawmaker Pushpa Bhusal, expressing her views during the discussions on the principles of the bill thanked the government for making the legal arrangements regarding the provincial public service commission. She stressed that the provincial public service commission should also pay attention to fairness and impartiality.
Similarly, the House of Representatives also approved the proposal seeking consideration on the amendment to two separate bills, today.
The lower house passed the proposal seeking consideration on the amendment made by the National Assembly, regarding the ‘Bill to Amend Some Nepal Acts, 2075’ tabled by the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Bhanubhakta Dhakal.