Nepal

Kathmandu, October 24

The National Human Rights Commission recently released a report on the ‘encounter killing& of Netra Bikram Chand-led Nepal Communist PartySarlahi In-charge Kumar Paudel, saying he was taken under police control before he was shot dead.

There have been multiple cases that are suspected extra judicial executions and incidents of police using excessive force in the Tarai in recent years. The NHRC has yet to make its investigation reports on rights violation in the Tarai public.

The NHRC had launched investigation into some suspectcases of extra judicial killings that took place in recent years, but the rights body has not made its reports public yet.

Alleged gangsters Dinesh Adhikari aka Chari and Kumar Shrestha aka Ghainte were killed in police ‘encounters& in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Alleged gangster Manoj Pun was killed in ‘encounter& in February 2018 in Rupandehi district, and Ajay Tamang and Gopal Tamang, who had allegedly kidnapped and killed a minor boy in Bhaktapur, were shot dead by police in August 2018.

NHRC member Mohna Ansari said the rights body was in the process of making public other reports. &Making public Kumar Paudelcase was possible as the agencies involved including the Nepal Police and medical doctor, who had conducted autopsy, submitted their reports to us within seven days,& Ansari said, adding that the NHRC was yet to receive reports from the police and doctors in other cases of ‘encounter killings& and ‘excessive& use of force. &The doctor who conducted post-mortem on Paudelbody told us that he could not come up with a standard report because our office did not tell him to do the job in the prescribed manner, said Ansari. &But why should our office or any other offices tell doctors to conduct post-mortem in a certain manner? Doctors are soley responsible for their jobs.&

She said preliminary investigation of some of the cases of ‘encounter killings& indicated that the victims were taken under control before they were shot dead.

Director Nirajan Thapaliya of Amnesty International Nepal said the NHRC did not publish some of its investigation report related to ‘extra judicial killings& that took place in Tarai districts after special security plan was launched in 2009.

&Scores of people were killed in the run up to the promulgation of the constitution in 2015, but the NHRC has not published any of its investigation report,& Thapaliya said.

He said the current structure of the NHRC was flawed and that those errors should be corrected to enable the NHRC office bearers to act impartially, independently and freely. &It appears that the NHRC lacks will to thoroughly investigate cases of rights violations,& he added.

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Kathmandu, October 24

The 9th Peace and Emotional Literacy International Conference is being organised in Kathmandu on October 25-26.

The conference entitled, ‘Global Peace through Emotional Intelligence Education, Organisation Management and Positive Psychology for Inner Peace, Business Success and A Better Life&, will be organised jointly by the World Without Anger, Global Peace Foundation Nepal and Samriddhi College, in partnership with EQ4Peace Worldwide Inc, USA and National Association Psychological Science, India. The theme of the conference is ‘Creating a Peaceful World Society through Emotional Intelligence, Business Success, Peace Education and a Better Life.& The conference will be divided into opening session, plenary session, technical session, and workshop session .

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• The court ordered extension of Maharapolice custody after third arraignment

Kathmandu, October 24

Kathmandu District Court today extended former speaker Krishna Bahadur Maharapolice custody by additional seven days.

Mahara was arrested on October 6 after Parliament Secretariat employee, Roshani Shahi accused him of attempt to rape.

Judge Sudarshan Raj Pandey ordered the extension of Maharapolice custody after conducting the third arraignment hearing today.

KDC had earlier sent Mahara to police custody for 13 days for the first time, which ended on October 19. Mahara was again sent to police custody for five days, which ended yesterday.

Mahara was taken to the Government AttorneyOffice, Kathmandu on October 15, but he did not record his statement as he chose his legal right to remain silent. But, he recorded his statement on October 20.

Police sources said Mahara had denied entering the house of Shahi on the night of September 29, but had only talked to her from outside her house.

Shahi, a nurse at the Parliament Secretariat, had lodged an FIR against Mahara on October 4. In her written complaint to the Metropolitan Police Circle at Baneshwor she had mentioned that Mahara attempted to rape her and also brutally beat her up in her rented room at Tinkune, on September 29.

On September 30, Shahi had told an online news portal that Mahara had raped her. She said that Mahara had visited her room with a bottle of whisky despite her objection, and had forced her to drink it, thrashed her multiple times before raping her. She also said that Mahara had been sexually harassing her for years.

Mahara, following her statement had resigned from the post of speaker after the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) instructed him to resign as both speaker of the House of Representative and a member of the Parliament.

He was hospitalised a few days after he was arrested on charges of attempt to rape.

Mahara, who has been undergoing treatment at Thapathali based Norvic Hospital for high blood pressure and respiratory ailments was brought to the district court for necessary proceedings and was later taken back to the same hospital after his third arraignment was completed.

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