Kathmandu, Nepal: The search operations launched by the Nepal Police to arrest the newly elected representative duo Navaraj Silwal and Rajiv Gurung aka Deepak Manange- member of the federal parliament and provincial assembly respectively is claim to have intensified, no results is made yet leaving space to suspect over the motive and strength of the Nepal Police.
Though Nepal Police has claimed to have mobilized special task forces to arrest Silwal and Manange but the Police have remained clueless even to find out the whereabouts. The delay in arrest is questioned over the effectiveness as well as motive of the Nepal police. It is suspected that Silwal and Manange have managed to stay off the police radar so far due to political patronage.
Manange is the elected representative of the provincial assembly seat from Manang Province ‘Kha constituency as an independent candidate while Silwal, former DIG of the Nepal Police, is the elected member of the federal parliament from Lalitpur Constituency 1 from CPN UML’s seat.
Though Manange was also the UML’s candidate in the beginning, he was shifted into independent category to escape controversy mounted in and outside of the UML for distributing tickets to the goons. As UML had not fielded its candidate in the constituency, he had won the elections from the UML’s vote.
The Supreme Court (SC) had ordered the concerned authorities to jail Manange on an attempted murder conviction. Overturning the ruling of the Kathmandu District Court and upholding the Patan Appellate Court’s decision to convict Manange, the SC had on January 16 ordered to jai him convicting in the attempted murder case of his rival gang leader Milan Gurung aka Chakre Milan.
As the SC had made the order, he was a no-show at the oath taking ceremony of Provincial Assembly members of Province 4, which took place in Pokhara, Kaski, on Sunday.
Police have also apparently failed to arrest Silwal, who has been charged of forging his performance evaluation document in a bid to become the chief of Nepal Police.
The Nepal Police have claimed to have issued even a diffusion notice against Silwal suspecting that he would have snaked in other countries. With the notice, law enforcement authorities of an INTERPOL member country have to give notice to another country even arresting.
The act and activities of law enforcement authorities is landed even in the political level. Though the UML has not spoken out officially about the issue of Manange, it has objected the arrest attempt of Silwal. CPN UML Chairman KP Oli had criticized the government for trying to arrest Silwal treating him as criminal.
