Nepal

Kathmandu, September 26

Police have arrested one more person for his alleged involvement in the robbery of over Rs 47.3 million from Agricultural Development Bank Limited.

The arrested has been identified as Ram Krishna Bhusal of Waling Municipality, Syangja district. Bhusal was arrested at around 12:00pm from the ADBLbranch office at Waling Bazaar. Police said Bhusal had visited the bank to withdraw Rs 6.5 million, which was illegally transferred to his account, a few days ago.

Four arrested Nepalis facing media at a press conference organised by Crime Division of Metropolitan Police in Teku, Kathmandu, on Wednesday. They were part of a gang that robbed over Rs 475 million from ADBL and a remittance firm. Photo: Naresh Shrestha/ THT

A foreigner called ‘Peter& had masterminded to illegally transfer over Rs 47.3 million from Lahan based ADBL bank to different 12 accounts of its branches across the country.

The accounts were opened by Peteraccomplices. Peter had used two genuine user IDs and their passwords to transfer the amount into the bank accounts opened by his accomplices.

Senior Superintendent of Police Sahakul Bahadur Thapa of Metropolitan Police Crime Division said, &Our team was secretly deployed to the area when Bhusal approached the Bank and proceeded to withdraw the money, we instantly caught him.&

Thapa also said out of 12 account holders, police have as of now rounded up eight persons. &We have mobilised our special team to arrest remaining four persons and they will be arrested soon.& Thapa also said remaining four persons will somehow provide a lead to the mastermind of the robbery plan, ‘Peter&.

With the arrest of Bhusal, number of people rounded up in the robbery case has reached 13.

Bhusal is also a construction entrepreneur and operates Pratikshya Nirman Sewa Company. Meanwhile, ADBL has summoned three staffers of its branch offices in Lahan and Siraha to its head office in Kathmandu.

The hackers had used user IDs and passwords of two of those staffers. Dirgha Aryal Deputy General Manager of ADBL said, &Our team will investigate if the staffers are innocent or if they were involved in leaking the user IDs and passwords to the hacker.&

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Kathmandu, September 25

Patan High Court today ordered medical test of the child of former Nepali Janata Dal lawmaker Gayatri Shah.

The court also sought advice of the medical board within three weeks to ensure whether the baby was fit for discharge from Medicity Hospital or not.

A joint bench of justices Shreeman Kumar Gautam and Tek Narayan Kunwar ruled that the baby should be handed over to its parents if the government medical board decided that the baby was fit to be discharged.

&If the baby is unfit for discharge, it should be treated at the same hospital where it is being treated now or at any other hospitals decided by the parents,& read the order. Nepal Mediciti Hospital had filed a case requesting an order for discharge of the baby from the hospital after Shah and her husband Rajesh Mahato, refused to take the baby home. Shah had given birth to the baby at the hospital with Down syndrome on March 12. She has been visiting the hospital to breastfeed her child. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic facial features.

Shah and her husband were arrested following an FIR lodged by Nepal Mediciti Hospital on April 4 on charge of abandoning their newborn at the hospital. The duo were released later. The couple had staged protest on the hospital premises accusing the hospital of lying about the babyhealth condition while in motherwomb, during Shahroutine health check-up.

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Kathmandu, September 26

The government has issued a procedure for providing grants to various organisations working for the welfare of people with disabilities.

Procedure aims to increase access of people with disabilities to employment by providing them skill training and social security. As per the procedure, the grants will be provided to eligible organisations through the concerned local levels.

The government has provision of funding non-government organisations established and operated to rehabilitate persons with disabilities in the society. The grant is provided on the basis of their programmes once approved by the government. The grant covers programme and administrative expenditure of the concerned organisations in conducting various activities that benefit target groups.

According to the procedure, the government will initiate the process of sanctioning the budget after a organisation submits an application with its proposal of activities and programmes to the concerned local level.

Payment of the grant is made in accordance with the annual programme of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen.

&The grant has to be spent only for the purpose for which it is provided.

The organisation receiving the grant shall operate programmes to deliver its services in all districts of the province where it has been established,& the procedure read. The grant amount will be provided through banking channel,& it read.

The procedure has tasked the concerned local level to carry out monitoring and evaluation to ascertain whether the organisation has utlised the grant or not. Report on monitoring and evaluation should be sent to the MoWCSC, on a regular basis. If the organisation is found to have misused the grant, the MoWCSC may blacklist it, prohibit the sale or transfer of its tangible and intangible assets and freeze its bank account for further action.

According to 2011 census, about two per cent (513,321) of the total population of the country is living with one or other kind of disability in Nepal. Of them, 280,086 are males and 233,235 are females.

Physical disability constitutes 36.3 per cent of the population with disability followed by blindness/low vision (18.5 per cent), deaf/hard of hearing (15.4 per cent), speech problem (11.5 per cent), multiple disability (7.5 per cent), mental disability (six per cent), intellectual disability (2.9 per cent) and deaf-blind (1.8 per cent). Around 80 per cent of the disabled people in the country are illiterate and 95 per cent of them are unemployed.

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Kathmandu, September 25

The US Embassy, in partnership with Nepali Army, concluded the fifth annual Disaster Management Awareness Programme on September 20-21.

Participants included the US Embassy Office of Defence Cooperation, US Embassy Civil Military Support Element, Kathmandu Institute of Science and Technology, and the Nepal Ambulance Service.

Every year Nepal is subject to earthquakes, landslides, and floods affecting significant portions of the population.

The DMAP, funded by the US Embassy, provides tools for future health care providers to reduce risk prior to a disaster and better prepares them for post-disaster medical management. This year, the Disaster Management Awareness Program was designed to expose the third and the fourth year medical and nursing students of Kathmandu Institute of Science and Technology, to large scale disaster response training.

Doctors and medical professionals from Nepali Army, KIST, US Civil Military Support Element and the Nepal Ambulance Service provided disaster management and preparedness training to more than 80 participants, said a press release issued by the embassy.

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