The Dammam prison administration implemented the decision of the three levels of courts and gave the death sentence at 7:59 am on Monday, May 19th. This is not the first case of Nepalese getting death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
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Pushparaj Ranabhat, 45 years old from Kaski, who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering his two Nepali colleagues, has been sentenced to death by the Saudi government.
The Dammam prison administration implemented the decision of the three levels of courts and gave the death sentence at 7:59 a.m. on Monday, May 19th. This is not the first case of Nepalese getting death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
The incident of murder is two years ago . According to the lower court in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Pushparaj killed 50-year-old Bhagyanarayan Rai and 44-year-old Saroj Kumar Jha, who were living in the same room, on October 2, 2080. Both Rai and Jha are from Mahottari. In this case, the decision of the lower level of death penalty was upheld by the High Court and the Supreme Court.
In this incident, the details about how Pushparaj was killed, what was the background of the incident have not been made public. An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is aware of this incident, said that it was a murder due to a mutual dispute, but did not want to give further details.
The death penalty in Saudi Arabia according to public law There is a system where the aggrieved party can take 'blood money' and apologize. However, officially, there was no talk between the victim and the perpetrator in this case . All three of them were ordinary workers .
In Saudi Arabia, it is customary to ask a person for their last wishes before executing a death sentence. In the letter sent by the Saudi government to the Nepali Embassy there, Ranabhat has mentioned that he has given his last wish to his wife and son in Pokhara. Naresh Vikram Dhakal, the Nepalese ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said that the embassy only received formal information about the execution after the execution.
Saudi law does not provide for the bodies of those who have been sentenced to death to be given to their families. Earlier, Vivek Dahal of Udaipur, who has been living in Saudi prison for 15 years, was executed on 6th Kartik 2079. Dahal killed Morang's relative Rajendra Bishta on 2 February 2007 . Both eyes of the Sudanese citizen who was seriously injured in that incident were damaged . After the execution, Vivek's body was buried in the ground in Saudi Arabia without giving it to the family.
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Sant Bahadur Pun of Modi Village-4 Khuijeri, Parbat, who has been in Qurayat Jail in Saudi Arabia for 22 years, was sentenced to death. He was charged with the murder of Saudi citizen Oda bin Aida bin Hamod Al Sarari . Saudi Arabia executed 172 people in 2023. Compared to the year 2022, the number is less. In 2022, 196 people were executed. But this year's figures have increased significantly.
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