Ramjais Maurya of Maharajgunj Municipality-6, Banjariya, who escaped from the district jail by digging a tunnel and was re-arrested and is in Nakkhu Jail, had also escaped from Nakkhu Jail during the Genji movement. The same 58-year-old Maurya has now been arrested from Kukurbhukuwa, a Nepal-India border checkpoint in Kapilvastu.

The police arrested him from Kukurbhukuwa, Krishnanagar Municipality-1, while he was on his way to a house he had built in Badni Bazaar, India, on the border. He appeared to be a normal person and was charged with a serious crime and a severe sentence. He was accused of killing a policeman on duty and another case of murder. He was arrested one and a half years after he first escaped from jail by digging a tunnel and nine months after he escaped from jail the next time.

On 24 Kartik 2063, Maurya was sentenced to 20 years in prison along with 11 others by the District Court on 10 Magh 2065 for the murder of police constable Navin Gurung, who was on duty in Bahadurgunj. While he was in prison for the murder case, he had already been sentenced to five years in prison for another murder. Meanwhile, on 1 Magh 2066, 8 people including him escaped by digging a 21-foot long tunnel from the eastern wall of Kapilvastu Jail. Then, in the case of escaping/running away of a prisoner, the Kapilvastu District Court had sentenced him to 25 years, 3 months and 3 days in prison by its verdict on 10 Jestha 2068.

A month after the sentence was imposed, Maurya was arrested on 13 Asar 2068. After this, he was sent to Nakkhu Jail. He had escaped from Nakkhu Prison on Bhadra 24 during the Genji movement of last Bhadra. After that, he was arrested for the second time on Jestha 24, said DSP Ripendra Kumar Singh, Information Officer of the District Police Office.

The court had issued a prisoner certificate to him to remain in prison from 2068 Shrawan 14 to 2093 Kartik 17, which would be reduced to a sentence of imprisonment. However, he had filed a petition from Nakkhu Prison to have his prisoner certificate amended. The Appellate Court, Butwal, in its judgment of 2069 Asoj 15, had ordered that the sentence be increased to 20 years and the sentence be extended to 2088 Shrawan 13. He had escaped from prison again with 6 years left to be released.

‘This time he didn’t want to escape,’ said Krishna Bahadur Kunwar, police inspector of the Krishnanagar Area Police Office. ‘He says he also left after everyone was forced to leave the prison.’ He had run a small shop inside the prison. He had bought a TV and a wardrobe with a small income. Kunwar said that Maurya used to say that he didn’t want to escape. However, Maurya complained that he had to leave the prison because the situation did not support him, said Police Inspector Kunwar.

According to Kunwar, after being released from Nakkhu Prison, Maurya stayed in Kathmandu for a day. He returned to the prison again. After seeing complete silence and desolateness there, he returned home.