Review Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal, May 5, 2020: The District Attorney Office (DAO), Kathmandu has registered a complaint against ruling head Nepal Communist Party (NCP) lawmaker duo Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha including former Inspector General of Nepal Police, Sarbendra Khanal for their alleged involvement on abduction of Janata Samajbadi party lawmaker Dr Surendra Yadav.
Responding to the widespread concerns over the alleged abduction case, the District Attorney Office, Kathmandu has on Monday registered a complaint on the abduction case filed by lawmaker Dr. Yadav April 28.
Dr. Yadav had also reached the district attorney’s office even on Monday afternoon demanding early register the complained filed earlier. Earlier the District Attorney Office, Kathmandu had refused to lodge the case seeking some time to study the complaint.
As the attorney office registered the complaint, it has to forward the complaint to the police for investigation though the Metropolitan Police Range, Teku, Kathmandu had on April 26 refused to register an abduction case.
As the ruling head NCP’s lawmaker duo Basnet and Shrestha are loyal to the Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, the critics have alleged the government for influencing the state mechanism. In the compliant, lawmaker Dr. Yadav has claimed that he was abducted by two NCP lawmakers and former IGP Khanal at the behest of Prime Minister Oli on April 22 and had taken to Kathmandu forcefully to split his then Samajbadi Party Nepal.
However, Basnet, Shrestha and Khanal have denied the abduction charges. Likewise, they have also filed a complaint at the National Human Rights Commission claiming that the abduction as claimed by lawmaker Dr. Yadav was ill-intended with the motive to defame them.
The abduction charge had become a major bone of contention in the political as well as legal front. Following the move, then Samajbadi Party Nepal and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) had merged for the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal.
The issue had led the ruling head NCP at the verge to split as government had issued ordinance to ease the process to split parties without holding consultation in the party. Senior leaders of the party namely- executive chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former Prime Minister Duo Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal had been demanding resignation of the Prime Minister Oli though the issue seems to have managed after Oli acknowledge the mistakes.
