November 5, 2023 21:15 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 5: Ram Hari Pandey (name changed due to privacy) has been sentenced like other prisoners in Central Jail Sundhara since February 23, 2016, on charges of homicide. The hearing of his case has not been done even though there is a legal provision of 20 years of imprisonment.
September 6, 2023 16:30 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 6: The government's treatment of prisoners in Nepal is highly problematic, with the Central Jail at Sundhara facing extreme overcrowding issues and a decaying infrastructure that puts inmates at risk. The work started for years to expand the prison capacity has been stopped by the government's decision. After the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's government decided to transform the Central Jail into a museum in the fiscal year 2018/19, the expansion project was stopped.
November 4, 2022 15:10 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 4: Rape-accused cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane will be sent to Central Jail, Sundhara.
September 1, 2020 18:50 pm
KATHMANDU, Sep 1: It has been learnt that four inmates with chronic diseases at the Sundhara-based Central Jail died as a result of poor medical care inside the jail.
September 1, 2020 15:18 pm
Source claims that a few more inmates at the jail are ill
February 12, 2019 13:42 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Twenty-seven inmates died in the six months of the current fiscal year across the country. They died of various sorts of diseases. The Central Jail Jagannathdewal tops the deaths.
January 21, 2019 11:20 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 21: As many as 13 inmates have died in the central jail of Nepal during the current fiscal year.
November 7, 2018 09:56 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: International serial killer Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj who is currently serving life term at the Central Jail in Kathmandu recently filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court seeking special privilege as an elderly person for waiver of his remainder term.