Ram Prasad Neupane, the father of the abducted teenager, said that he was left with nothing but disappointment after the results were not released.
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The whereabouts of Kishor Neupane, a student who was kidnapped 14 years ago, are still unknown. Neupane was abducted while walking to the market from Barudkhan, Tansen Municipality-4.
Despite the district chief's repeated statements that the Neupane kidnapping case file was being processed, no results have been released so far.
Even the then-student organization, which had said that it would escalate further if the status of the kidnapped student Neupane was not made public, has remained silent in recent years.
This incident was caused by the negligence of the administration. The police's investigation bureau had also stated that it had started an investigation into the Neupane kidnapping case. 'It would have been easier if this matter had been taken seriously earlier,' Superintendent of Police Dipendra Panjiyar Tharu, who had been transferred to Palpa a few months ago, had said in response to a journalist's query, 'I have received information that the investigation is still ongoing. But there have been no results.'
The investigation was moved forward after the then police chiefs also showed interest in the incident.
The police had stated that the file on the juvenile kidnapping case was closed 12 years ago. The file was reopened after 9 years. The then Deputy Superintendent of Police Govinda Thapaliya informed the press conference that the file had been closed saying that the abducted teenager had gone to India on his own.
After that, the then Deputy Superintendent of Police Shiva Kumar Shrestha took up the investigation.
The then Deputy Superintendent of Police Suman Kumar Timsina had said that the investigation into the kidnapping case was being taken seriously. An investigation team from various police agencies was deployed to take the case seriously.
The results have not been received yet. The police chief who is transferred here says that it is being viewed with great importance since it is a serious case. The family of the teenager feels some relief after getting the information that the file has been opened. However, the father of the kidnapped teenager, Ram Prasad Neupane, said that there is nothing but disappointment again when the results do not come.
On 22nd of July 2068, the teenager's father, Ram Prasad, also held several press conferences saying that there was no search operation for his abducted son. He has been complaining that the police administration has not cooperated in the investigation.
In the first few days, the kidnappers had been negotiating for money over the phone with the teenager's father, Ram Prasad. The police had described his kidnapping as mysterious. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of Rs 10 million at the time, which was reduced to Rs 1.5 million. But during the investigation, the family became distraught when the police suddenly closed the file saying that the teenager had gone to India and would be contacted later.
It has been a mystery so far as to who kidnapped the teenager, who lives in Purbakhola Gaujalpa and lives in Tansen Barudkhan, and why. The media personnel have been informing the transferred police chief every time he comes. The kidnappers, who had been demanding ransom for a week after the kidnapping, stopped calling after 11 days.
'There is no information about his body or breath except shedding tears,' said the teenager's father, Ram Prasad. Father Ram Prasad and mother Nunakumari had been requesting the President, Prime Minister, Home Minister and all political parties to find out the situation no matter what the police said.
They have been requesting political parties, civil society, media persons, students, industrialists, administration, and police in the district and center to find out the situation of their son. Yagyamurthy Timilsena, district representative of human rights organization Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC), said that they have been requesting the police chief every time.
‘A young man has been missing for 14 years, this is a sad thing,’ he said, ‘They say they will review the file, but no conclusion has been reached so far.’ Haribol Bhattarai, the then president of the Independent Students Union of Tribhuvan Multiple Campus Tansen Palpa, said that pressure was exerted in the then situation.
‘The problem is that the police themselves have delayed the investigation,’ he said, ‘Many police chiefs have been transferred and come and go, but it seems that no one has given importance to the situation of Kishore Neupane.’
