Sirohia's arrest wrong: MP Sapkota
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MP Madhav Sapkota of the Maoist Center, which is leading the government, said that the arrest of Kantipur Media Group Chairman Kailash Sirohia was wrong. MP Sapkota says that it is wrong to arrest Sirohia, the president of media group, by raising the issue of citizenship while Kantipur is continuously publishing on issues such as misappropriation of cooperative funds.
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Sirohia, president of Kantipur Media Group, was arrested by the police from the office of Kantipur Dainik on Tuesday. Chairman Sirohia was arrested from the office of Kantipur Daily while Kantipur was continuously publishing news with the facts and evidence of the involvement of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane.
MP Sapkota of the Maoist Center has said that the arrest of Sirohia is wrong at this time. Speaking to Ekantipur on Wednesday, Sapkota said, 'It is wrong to arrest Kantipur president Sirohia now. His arrest at the present time has raised questions. It seems that the president of Kantipur was arrested at the wrong time.'
MP Sapkota also said that it is expected that the decision of Sirohia's arrest will be made soon by the court process.
Prime Minister and Chairman of Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal also said that Sirohiyar is innocent. Stating that Sirohia was arrested by the court process, Dahal responded after a program on Wednesday, 'He is innocent by the court process . Easy to get rid of. This will be the solution.'
The president of Kantipur Media Group, Sirohia, was arrested from the office on Tuesday on the pretext that the citizenship number given by the district administration matched that of another person.
The police team went to the office on the eighth floor of the Kantipur office to arrest President Sirohia while he was at work trampling the democratic practice of not allowing security agencies of the state to enter the office of the independent press. A team including SSP Sanukumar Bhattarai and SP Ravindra Regmi of the Valley Crime Investigation Office Kathmandu entered the working room with police officers including Bardi.
On Tuesday in Kantipur, Gorkha Media published news under the title of embezzlement of 958.1 million rupees by four cooperatives, during the period when Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane was the managing director of the company, 803.1 million rupees were received from cooperatives in Gorkha Media. A large number of police were mobilized in the Kantipur office complex and Thapathali road from early morning.
Sirohia was taken away by Bardidhari police in the presence of journalists federation, media society, lawyers, civil leaders, parliamentarians, various media publishers and journalists at the Kantipur office complex.
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