Nepal

Kathmandu, August 18

Acting on an FIR police arrested a person in connection with the murder of former ambassador of Nepal to France, Keshav Raj Jha. Jha was killed in his house at Babar Mahal, on August 20, last year.

After one year of the incident, deceasedwife Gyanu Jha, 76, had filed an FIR accusing Sanu Kancha Tamang of killing her husband on August 14, at Metropolitan Police Range, Teku.

Sanu Kancha Tamang aka Kancha was arrested from Kavre and brought to Kathmandu on August 16.

&We arrested Tamang from his village in Kavre on the basis of the FIR,& said Senior Superintendent of Police Sahakul Bahadur Thapa at Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Teku. Tamang worked as a cook-cum-guard in the house of Jha and was detained and interrogated by police on several occasions as one of the prime suspects in the case. But, he was released due to lack of substantial evidence, according to police. Tamang worked in Jhahouse for seven years. Only three persons — Jha, his wife Gyanu and Tamang — were in the two-storey building at the night of the incident. Besides Tamang, police had also nabbed part-time workers at Jhahouse, gardener Aitasingh Tamang and cook Jay Bahadur Tamang as prime suspects following the incident. But, all three were released as police could not collect sufficient evidence to prove their involvement in the crime. Police had also conducted polygraph test on three of them, which was not helpful. Police were also unable to detect fingerprints on the kitchen knife which was used to kill Jha. He was stabbed at least four times in his head and couple of times in the chest.

The weapon used in the murder was found stuck in the sweatshirt Jha was wearing that night.

MPCD Teku after detaining the three for several days with the permission of the district court had ultimately freed them as they were not able to collect substantial evidence to prove their guilt in the crime.

A family member of Gyanu told THT that she was accompanied by her daughter Dr Rajshree Jha and son Dr Kiran Raj Jha to file the complaint at the police. Her son and daughter, who stay abroad, were in Nepal to attend the first death anniversary of their father.

The post FIR filed almost one year after ex-ambassador Jhamurder appeared first on The Himalayan Times.

Details: Category: Nepal; Published: 19 August 2019

Write comment (100 Comments)

Kathmandu, August 18

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has said that cases related to fake academic credentials top the list of charge-sheets filed at the Special Court since the establishment of the anti-graft body, 29 years ago.

The CIAA was established in 1991. According to the anti-graft body, it filed as many as 2,437 cases at the court against civil servants, teachers and police personnel, among others, during the period. Annual average of the graft cases stand at around 84. The cases filed at the court remained 351, which is four times more than the average number.

On the subject-wise filing of cases, fake academic credentials outnumber other cases like those on corruption and irregularities, in the past 29 years. Statistics provided by the CIAA showed that it dealt with 1,106 cases of fake credentials, followed by bribery (487) and amassing disproportionate asset (102). However, cases of fake documents stood second in fiscal 2018-19, numbering 89, after bribery (147).

According to the CIAA, the tendency of submitting fake academic credentials, including teaching licences and citizenship certificates, for joining government service, getting promotion and receiving government facilities is rampant in public offices. Appointing, promoting and providing facilities to any person on the basis of bogus or forged academic certificates and other documents badly affect performance and service delivery of government offices. It is also detrimental to the morale of qualified and capable employees. A recent report of the CIAA said that it had accorded high priority to investigate suspicious academic credentials of government employees. An investigation by the anti-graft body showed that most of the employees submitting fake credentials were school teachers and police personnel. Health workers, technical and administrative employees of local levels were also among the persons who joined government services to benefit from promotions and other facilities by submitting fake documents. The CIAA has urged the government and the authorities concerned to verify the authenticity of academic credentials of the candidates applying for government jobs to ensure that only genuine candidates are selected for the government.

The post Fake credential cases top list of plaints appeared first on The Himalayan Times.

Details: Category: Nepal; Published: 19 August 2019

Write comment (90 Comments)

Kathmandu, August 18

Jhalanath Khanal has become the most powerful leader after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), in a major blow to senior NCP leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.

The decision to elevate Khanal in the partyhierarchy was taken by NCPcentral secretariat meeting held today at the prime ministerresidence.

Until now, Nepal was the most powerful leader in the party after the two co-chairs, Oli and Dahal. But with todaydecision, Nepal has tumbled a notch behind Khanal in the partyhierarchy.

&Nepal sees his demotion as an attempt to alienate him in the NCP and calls it a ploy designed by two co-chairs of the party,& a leader close to Nepal told THT. According to the source, he told todaymeeting that the party should embrace ‘one person, one post& principle, taking a jibe at Oli, who is the head of the party as well as the government.

Tension had been simmering between Khanal and Nepal since the establishment of the NCP in May 2018.

Right after the NCP was formed following the merger of CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre, Nepal was ranked third in the party hierarchy after the two co-chairs. At that time, Khanal had expressed dissatisfaction over Nepalranking in the party and had submitted a note of dissent in the partycentral secretariat. Khanal had argued that he should be placed ahead of Nepal in the NCPhierarchy, as he was the most senior leader after Oli in the erstwhile CPN-UML. But the NCP central secretariat did not consider Khanalrequest at that time.

However, Khanal raised the same issue during Fridaycentral secretariat meeting and the partytwo co-chairs agreed to reconsider his request.

&If the NCP intends to follow the hierarchy of erstwhile CPN-UML as proposed by Khanal, then the party should appoint Bhim Rawal, Astha Laxmi Shakya and Yubaraj Gyawali as vice-chairpersons because they were vice-presidents in the erstwhile CPN-UML,& Nepal was quoted as saying during todaymeeting.

Todaydecision is likely to sow seeds for further political infighting, as Nepal is considered an influential leader in the party.

Heads of 22 sister wings appointed

The post Khanal No 3 in NCP hierarchy appeared first on The Himalayan Times.

Details: Category: Nepal; Published: 19 August 2019

NewsPaper

TodaysNews

PopularToday

World
20
Featured

Headlines

Magazine

Editorial

PublishOpinion

Advertise

NewsPaper

TodaysNews

PopularToday

World

Featured

Headlines

Magazine

Editorial

PublishOpinion

Advertise

In Pics Today

Login

4-Abuse 6-Airstrike 4-Bomb 6-Earthquake 15-Killed 12-Terror 114-War

FIR filed almost one year after ex-ambassador Jha’s murder

Fake credential cases top list of plaints

Khanal No 3 in NCP hierarchy

164 gambling dens dismantled

PM holds meeting with Deuba, Dahal over transitional justice

भर्खरै चितवनमा पत्रकारमाथी हातपात, हस्पिटल बन्द किन आज झन भागाभाग rabi Lamichhane