The National Human Rights Commission has started an investigation into the acquittal of the then Law Minister of Koshi Province, Leela Ballabh Adhikari, who took the three youths to Japan with him by creating identity cards in collaboration with the gang of human smugglers.

As the matter is serious, the Commission has also given instructions to provide related documents including the prosecution decision from the Public Prosecutor's Office .

In collusion with the gang, the then Minister Adhikari flew Kanchan Devkota of Rasuwa and Dawa Sherpa and Janak Rai of Khotang to Japan with him on October 13. Japanese immigration turned the four away at the airport after the documents were found to be suspicious.

On the way back, three young men were detained by the police from the Kathmandu airport, but the officer managed to escape, saying that he was a minister. All three youths are currently in custody. They paid a total of 3155,000 to the group including Mahesh Bhandari, Bir Bahadur Sunuwar and Dawa Sherpa to go to Japan.

Bhandari, Sunuwar and Sherpa, who were arrested after the statements of the three youths, are also in prison. Although the public prosecutor's office filed a case against Bhandari, Sunuwar and Sherpa along with three youths, the officer was acquitted. 

Without even taking the approval of the state and union government, the then ministerial officer "Arts Council Tokyo" flew to Japan to participate in the "Culture and Home" program that was scheduled to be held from October 29 to November 3. In order to take the

together, the officer made the identity cards of Sherpa of Khotang Ainselukhark Rural Municipality, a member of Ward No. 2 of the same municipality, and Devkota and Rai as employees of the Ministry of Law of Koshi Province. 

Even though the police investigation report mentioned that the members of the gang and the then ministerial officer were guilty, the decision of the public prosecutor to prosecute the case by acquitting the officer and keeping only the others in custody is being widely criticized. After this matter reached the National Human Rights Commission, the investigation started.

After lawyers Ravin Sharma and Birendra Dawadi filed a complaint saying that the decision to indict only some of the gang members and the youth victims by acquitting the officer who took pictures with the gang member who collected money before flying to Japan violated the rule of law and made a mockery of the rule of law, the Commission discussed the matter and investigated it on Wednesday. advanced. The Commission said that the case is serious and has given instructions on Wednesday to provide related documents including the prosecution decision from the public prosecutor's office. 

'We have further investigated this,' said a commissioner, 'the minister involved in human trafficking will get immunity but the victim will be prosecuted and imprisoned, this is a violation of human rights, the commission is serious about this.'

The gang took Rs 10 lakh each from Devkota and Rai and Rs 11 lakh 55 thousand from Sherpa and forged documents claiming to be government employees. It is mentioned in the report of police inspector Jet Prasad Bhattarai that the documents are related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law, which is the official minister. 

"A gang has taken money to fly an unemployed youth to Japan and made a document, and if it is labor, it is a crime of making it, and if it is smuggling, it is a crime to take it. The unemployed youth forced to pay money are the victims of this scandal," said one of the petitioners, Advocate Sharma, "The state has no conscience." By deciding and imposing wrong laws, on the one hand, the victims are sued, and on the other hand, they make a mockery of the rule of law by giving immunity to ministers and officials who misused their government positions by playing the main role in implementing human trafficking. It has been blown up, it cannot be accepted in a democracy.'' Sharma's analysis is that although the number of

s is small, the Japan scandal involving ministerial officials and the Bhutanese refugee scandal have the same trend. "In both scandals, it was seen that human traffickers and middlemen facilitated the illegal taking of unemployed youth abroad by ministers and high-ranking officials," he said. The

officer is a leader of the Prime Minister's party UML and an MP from Koshi. He is elected from Morang 2(2). Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki had demanded the official's resignation for going abroad without taking permission from the union and state governments. He then resigned from the post of minister.

He was arrested on October 25 by the police from his residence at Bargachi in Morang and brought to Kathmandu for investigation. Based on the statements of the other arrested accused and the facts and evidence revealed by the investigation, the police gave an opinion to prosecute the case as a defendant.