Home minister promises probe into ‘police encounter’

Published On: August 10, 2018 07:16 AM NPT By: Republica  | @RepublicaNepal


KATHMANDU, Aug 10: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that his ministry will look into the controversy over the alleged encounter this week of two individuals suspected of kidnapping and killing an 11-year-old boy, Nishan Khadka, of Kadaghari.

Speaking at a meeting of the State Affairs Committee of parliament on Thursday, Home Minister Thapa said he will make inquiries about what had happened and inform the committee about it. 

The parliamentary committee had convened the meeting to deliberate on the draft of the amendment bill of the Nepal Public Security Act. But after Nepali Congress lawmaker Devendra Raj Kandel requested the home minister to brief the committee whether it was a fake encounter as suggested by media reports, Thapa said he would study the issue and inform the truth at the committee’s next meeting.

Metropolitan Police Crime Division claimed that the alleged kidnappers – Gopal Tamang and Ajaya Tamang – were killed by police in self-defense after the alleged abductors started firing at the police. However, reports claim that MPCD took the two from their room and killed them in the jungle in a “fake encounter” on the way to the Pilot Baba Ashram in Bhaktapur.  

 

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