KATHMANDU, Jan 14: The scheduled hearing on the case against Nepali Congress (NC) leader Mohammad Aftab Alam has been postponed. As most of the judges of the Rautahat District Court were on leave, the hearing on the case scheduled for Sunday was postponed.

KATHMANDU, Sept 3: Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa has hinted that leader Mohammad Aftab Alam, who is currently serving jail term on charge of murder, will not be made a candidate for MP in the upcoming parliamentary election.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: The Nepali Congress (NC) has recommended Mohammad Aftab Alam, who is currently in prison on the charge of burning some people in a brick kiln, as a candidate for the Rautahat Constituency No 2 for the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, Sept 24: A pre-scheduled hearing on a writ petition filed by former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam was deferred on Friday. The hearing was to be conducted by the bench of justices Anil Kumar Sinha and Kumar Chudal today.

KATHMANDU, August 27: The hearing on the mass murder case registered at the Supreme Court (SC) against former Minister for Labor and Transport Management and a lawmaker of Nepali Congress (NC), Mohammad Aftab Alam, that was scheduled for Friday by the Supreme Court has been postponed.

LAHAN, Dec 7: Police have arrested Mahatab Alam, one of the accused of the 2008 Rautahat mass killing, which took place on the eve of the Constituent Assembly elections.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: Police have arrested Badri Sahani, one of the accused of the Rautahat mass killing in 2008, from the Indian side of the Nepal-India border on Saturday.

KATHMANDU: Police on Saturday arrested one of the accused of a mass killing in Rautahat district in 2008.

RAUTAHAT, Nov 16: Rautahat District Court on Friday sent Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam, who has been accused of a bomb blast and multiple murders, into judicial custody.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: Gauri Shankar Ram Chamar, one of the Rautahat bomb-blast survivors, has appealed for his security after murder-accused Mohammad Aftab Alam's henchmen abducted him and held him captive for four days to force him to change a statement he had recorded in court.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Supporters of Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam kidnapped a victim of the Rautahat bomb blast of 2008 and forced him to change the statement he recorded against Alam, it is learnt.

RAUTAHAT, Nov 12: The lawyers of murder-accused lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam of Nepali Congress have said that no blast had occurred in 2008 in Rautahat.

RAUTAHAT, Nov 8: Rautahat District Court has begun preliminary hearings in the case of former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam, who has been accused of multiple murders in a bomb blast in Rautahat in 2008.

RAUTAHAT, Nov 6: As the recording of a statement from suspended lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam was delayed on Tuesday after his lawyers demanded copies of the charge sheet filed against him, Rautahat District Court is recording the statement of the Nepali Congress leader on Wednesday also.

RAUTAHAT, Nov 5: A day after the District Attorney Office filed a case against suspended Nepali Congress lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam at the Rautahat District Court for his alleged involvement in committing several murders in Rautahat district in April 2008, the District Police Office presented him before the court to record his statement on Tuesday.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 26: The District Court, Rautahat on Friday remanded former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam in custody for eight more days.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 25: Rautahat District Court on Friday extended Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam's police custody by eight days.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 25: Police have sent for laboratory tests clothing items of victims of a bomb blast in Rautahat in 2008 and ashes from the brick kiln into which they were allegedly thrown and killed. Former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam is alleged to be behind the killings.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 21: Rautahat District Court remanded Mohammad Aftab Alam, a former minister accused of murdering nearly two dozen people in 2008, to police custody for five more days on Sunday for investigations.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 20: Rautahat District Court has remanded Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam in custody for more five days for investigations into a blast and subsequent murder of at least 22 of those injured in the bomb blast that took place in 2008.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: Faced with a barrage of criticism in social media over his remarks on the arrest of Nepali Congress (NC) lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam on Friday, the party's president Sher Bahadur Deuba has pledged NC's support to an "impartial and unbiased" investigation into the case.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 20: The victims of the 2008 bomb blast in Rautahat district have started coming in the contact of Rautahat Police.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 16: The Rautahat District Court on Tuesday has remanded suspended lawmaker and former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam to judicial custody for seven days for investigations.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 14: Police on Sunday arrested former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam on the charge of his involvement in committing several murders in Rautahat district in April 2008.

KATHMANDU, Oct 14: At about 2 pm on April 9, 2008 a group of local leaders affiliated to the Nepali Congress came to Sri Narayan Singh’s home in Rajkot in Rautahat district. It was the eve of the 2008 historic Constituent Assembly elections.

RAUTAHAT, Oct 13: Police have arrested Nepali Congress lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam on Sunday morning in connection with a bomb explosion that occurred in Rautahat some 11 years ago.