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41-year-old Kamlesh Kumar from India, who sold burst balloons at the declaration ceremony of Pokhara Visit Year 2025, has been detained by the police for the crime of indecent behavior.
The police detained Kamlesh from Motihari in Bihar after taking permission from the district administration office Kaski for extension of time. He was arrested by the police on Sunday after the balloon exploded on February 3.
In his statement with the police, he has told that he has been selling hydrogen by filling balloons in Pokhara for the past 12 years. According to Kaski police chief SP Shyambabu Olia, Kamlesh was also found making gas in his own room. He used to fill the same gas in a cylinder and take it to the market and fill it in a balloon and sell it.
"We have sent the sample of the burst balloon to the forensic science laboratory to find out whether it is hydrogen or another gas. We will know which gas it is only after the report comes," said SP Olia.
The police have also questioned Sher Bahadur Gurung, the owner of SK Sound Pvt Ltd, who arranged the electric lights on the stage, and Shobit Basyal, the owner of Prakash Advertising, who took charge of the stage decoration. The inquiry committee formed by the government under the leadership of Chief District Officer of Kaski, Bharatmani Pandey, is also studying the incident.
Senior advocate Surendra Thapa says that instead of blaming only those who fill gas balloons and sell them, the carelessness of the event organizers should also be investigated. "There is one part of the business license, we have to see if he had an intention in the accident, the intention is not visible," he says, "In order to commit a crime, there must be an intention." There is no intention. Action without intention is not a crime.'
The chief guest of the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel, after pressing the switch and lighting the lamp, tried to blow up the balloon that had the banner of the year of visit, but it was met by a nearby splash and exploded with a loud noise and fire. Dhanraj Acharya, head of Poudel and Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality, was injured when the balloon fell.
They were given first aid in Pokhara and sent to the burn hospital in Kirtipur by helicopter. Currently, Paudel has been discharged and Acharya is out of danger. He has been shifted to the ward.
