Rabindra Mishra and Dhaval Shamsher have claimed that they participated in the Durga Prasain demonstration as guests only, while Prasain has made a statement that the RPP leaders along with Dhaval and Rabindra ”incited the crowd to surround the Parliament and made them pelt stones”.
It has been found that the royalist leaders, who were arrested after the violent incident in Tinkunne area, tried to avoid themselves by turning aside in their statements to the police. Durga Prasain, the 'Janakmander' of the royalist protest, Rabindra Mishra, senior vice president of RPP, and General Minister and Member of Parliament Dhaval Shamsher Jabara blamed each other for the incident. Those involved in vandalism and arson have also given statements to the police that they were instigated by the leaders.
"Janakmandar" Prasain has given a statement to the police that the main people responsible for the three-corner demonstration are Navraj Subedi, the coordinator of the "Joint People's Movement Committee for the Restoration of the Raj Sanstha". He insists that he only did the division of work as a member of the committee and the leader of the movement. "Its main task is to coordinate all the organizations, organize the various organizations in one place and the people like Navraj Subedi, Jagman Gurung, Asmita Bhandari, Rama Singh, Kamal Thapa, Pashupatishamsher Rana and others will do it," he said.
Prasain has given a statement that he is only in a supporting role in mobilizing the people's movement under Jabara, the coordinator of the movement mobilization committee. My role is to advance the movement. Dhavalshamsher Jabra's role of arranging others is his statement.
It is Prasai's statement that the person who expressed that the leader's house should be set on fire belongs to the RPP. Before the start of the program, I saw a video clip with a missile attached to the speech given on the stage saying, "We are not here to play deusibhailo." The person who gave such an opinion is from RPP,' he said.
'Janak Commander' Prasain has given a statement to the police that force was used after stones were thrown at the police during the demonstration. He has accused in the statement that Jan Andolan mobilization coordinator Jabara, member secretary of the same organization Rabindra Mishra and the RPP workers and Santosh Rajawadi's team threw stones at the police who were 300 meters away from the venue. Due to stone pelting, the police fired tear gas and bullets from the roof and floor of the house and turned the place where the common people gathered at the declaration meeting into a battlefield.
Prasai also told the police that he had no plans to surround the Parliament building on 15 March. He says that he gave the expression that let's come and occupy the parliament building on impulse. While watching the video of the day of the incident, he said that he saw a clash with the police when Mishra and Jabara were taking Hool towards Baneshwar saying that they would occupy the Parliament. He also claims that he did not cause criminal nuisance to overthrow the state power.
Prasain Tinkune fled to India after the incident. After two weeks, he was arrested by the police from India and is currently in custody. The Public Prosecutor's Office, Kathmandu, filed a case against him in the District Court on Sunday for crimes against the state, criminal nuisance, duty killing, killing industry, organized crime and integrated crime.
RPP Senior Vice President Mishra has given a statement that the event of 15th March was organized by Prasai's group. "At Durgaji's request, Navaraj Subedi, the coordinator of the committee held a press conference on 14th of Chait and announced Prasain as Janak Commander," he told the police. My analysis on social media has nothing to do with the violence of that day. My role was that of a guest. I had no role in the planning, operation and management of the program. He said that he was not involved in any violent act.
Mishra has admitted that there is a RPP banner in the program. The banner stating that RPP is the organizer of the program was sent after their request. "I was not aware of how the stage with the banner was built, how the banner was placed," he said.
Jabara has given a statement that the work of the committee he is the coordinator of is coordinating and mobilizing the peaceful movement. He also stated that Prasain was the original organizer of the 15th March event. I participated in the meeting as a guest for the purpose of giving a speech. I and my party are not in favor of violent demonstrations,' he said.
Premdeep Limbu of the Prussian-led organization has revealed in a statement that the speech given from the stage to incite the crowd. He has given a statement that Santosh Silwal, Satish Neupane, Shishir GC, Kumar Basnet and others are supporters of the monarchy so it is natural for his conversation to take place. RPP Senior Vice President Mishra and General Minister Jabara were arrested in the investigation of the Tinkun incident and released on bail. A case has been filed against both of them in District Court Kathmandu on Sunday against the state, criminal nuisance, organized crime and integrated crime.
Gokarna Shahi alias Anup Rajawadi of Anwarat Thapar Fauj (ATF) has said that the person who ordered the vandalism and arson in Tinkune area was 'Janak Commander' Prasai, leaders Rabindra Mishra, Dhavalshamsher Jabara and others. "We vandalized and set arson on the orders of these individuals to achieve the objective of restoring the monarchy with the eternal Hindu nation," he said in a statement.
According to Shahi, they participated in the demonstration on 15 Chait under the guidance of people who were in direct contact with the secretariat of former King Shah. "People including Santosh Rajawadi, who gave us instructions, met and talked directly with Durga Prasai, the founder of the Nation, Nationality, Religion, Culture and Civil Defense Campaign Nepal, senior leaders of RPP, Rabindra Mishra, Dhavalshamsher Jabara, and the private secretariat of former King Gyanendra Shah," he said.
Ramesh Rai, who was arrested on the charge of being involved in the three-corner case, has also stated that he is in direct communication with the secretariat of former King Shah regarding various programs. In the program organized by Rajawadi, our direct conversation was only with Santosh Silwal, Vishnu Rimal and Satish Neupane. They used to have discussions with Durga Prasain, RPP senior leaders, Purvaraja Gyanendra's private secretariat about what kind of program to conduct,' he said.
Saroj Gautam, also known as Tara Rajawadi, has admitted that he and others set fire to the Tinkune house. It is his statement that Hem alias Bhimram Tharu, Dandapani Regmi, Satish Neupane, Gokarna Shahi, who had entered the house before him and set fire to the room, took the lighter in Gokarna's hand and started the fire. He also told the police that when the fire started burning in the house, he got down and ran towards the camp. Santosh Rajawadi, Prasain, Jabra and Mishra should take responsibility for that incident.
Gautam also told the police that he and others pelted stones at the police after the leaders of Prasain, Mishra, and Jabra gave a fierce speech. Gyanendra and Komal Shah tattooed on his chest, he belonged to 'ATF'.
Santosh Silwal, who is the 'ATF' coordinator, has given a statement that he knows Saroj Gautam, Gokarna Shahi and others who set fire to the house. He says that he got to know Prasai when the former king went to Jhapa two years ago. He has also said that he has been a royalist since 2064.
'Janak Commander' Prasain has told the police that he met former King Gyanendra at Nirmal Niwas the day before the three-cornered demonstration. On the day he returned from meeting the former king, the Subedi-led committee announced Prasai as 'Janak Commander'. In a statement related to former King Shah, Prasain said, 'The country cannot be run by these leaders, you have to come and run the country yourself, we should be the guardians of Nepali people because this country is the country of your great-grandfather Maharajadhiraja Prithvi Narayan Shah. With him, I have a relationship between the king and the people. I have been meeting him repeatedly for the past 5 years. He used to meet with him through his private secretary," said Prasain.
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Case against 61 people in the three-corner incident
61 people have been prosecuted in Kathmandu District Court on Sunday for their involvement in the violent incident that took place on 15 Chait in Kathmandu's Tinkune area. The District Public Prosecutor's Office has filed chargesheets against 61 people for giving the opinion that 180 people should be prosecuted. A case is being registered against the other four minors in the Bhaktapur Children's Court on Monday.
The public prosecutor's office has demanded punishment for five offenses against the "commander" of the royalist protest, Durga Prasad Prasai, and four offenses each against Rabindra Mishra, the senior vice-president of RPP, and General Minister and MP Dhaval Shamsher Jabara.
District Court Information Officer Deepak Kumar Shrestha has been asked to be punished for crimes against the state, criminal nuisance, duty killing, killing industry, organized crime and integrated crime. Mishra and Jabra have been charged with criminal mischief, organized crime and organized crime against the state.
The public prosecutor's office has filed separate indictments of 50 and 11 people including Prasai and filed a case according to section 32 of the Civil Criminal Procedure Code of 2074. According to the office, 11 people have been registered under criminal nuisance and others have been registered as individual cases. Ramhari Sharma Kafle, chief associate attorney of the public prosecutor's office informed that a case will be filed against the four children accused of being involved in the violent demonstration in the Bhaktapur Children's Court on Monday. According to him, a case will be registered against one child against the state and against 3 others for criminal nuisance.
District Police Complex Kathmandu spent about two months investigating the Tinkune incident. Police Superintendent Apilraj Bohra informed that 90 people were arrested and investigated. 18 people are still on the absconding list of the police. According to spokesperson Bohra, 49 people who have been charged in the Tinkune incident are in custody. "61 people were investigated for criminal nuisance and organized crime and 29 people were investigated for crimes against the state," said Bohra, "of which 34 people who were investigated for criminal nuisance and organized crime and 3 people who were accused of crimes against the state were already released from custody." RPP's senior Upadhya Mishra and General Minister and MP Jabara, who were indicted, were already absent from court. "Commander" Prasai is still in custody.
Rajawadi's demonstration on 15th Chait turned violent and Avenues television journalist Suresh Rajak and Kirtipur-4 Savin Maharjan died. 20 people were injured in police firing. 3 people who were injured in the shooting are still undergoing treatment.
Revika Khatri of Udaipur, who was shot in the thigh, is being treated at Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center in Maharajganj. Revika was taken to Maharajganj for plastic surgery after being kept in the intensive care unit of the civil hospital for a long time. CTVS is undergoing treatment in ICU due to profuse bleeding from the bullet site.
Dilliprasad Luintel of Bhojpur, who was shot in the stomach, is undergoing treatment at the trauma center. Ramhari (Rhythm) Shrestha of Kavre, who was shot in the arm, is undergoing regular follow-up at B&B Hospital. After the injury, the operation of the vein in his arm, which has steel in his arm, is pending.
According to police data, 15 private houses, 37 private institutions (two media houses, one super market, two hospitals, four banks, two cooperatives, 20 businesses, one school, two party offices and three offices), one industry, two police offices and traffic islands were damaged in the Tinkune demonstration. 69 vehicles were damaged due to arson and vandalism.
