In the plan of an organized gang, the case filed against the accused of the crime of sending Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees to the United States by preparing fake documents has reached the hearing stage. About 2 and a half years after filing the case, the district court took it to the hearing stage.

According to the court administration, in the recent past, the case was paid weekly and the witnesses were interviewed and the documents were made. The court heard the evidence and filed witness statements on behalf of the complainant and the accused. Now the case has been fixed for hearing on Wednesday.

"Previously, there was an order from the bench to understand the witness, according to the order, some witnesses have been dismissed, if there are some left, the payee has been fixed for Wednesday, probably the case will go to trial," said Deepak Kumar Shrestha, the information officer of the court, "If there is anyone left to understand the witness/evidence, the bench will be scheduled for Wednesday, then the order will be accordingly," said Shrestha, but now the case has gone to trial.

District Court The bench of the then Judge Prem Prasad Neupane had ordered that the arrested person be kept in custody and ordered to proceed with the preliminary investigation of the case. After the

, some of the accused were released from the High Court on bail and bail. Some of them are in prison after the judgment of the district and higher authorities. In this case, in the previous two years 2080 and 81, the case did not receive priority . Since April alone, 10 times weekly and 16 times supplementary payment has been made in the case of refugee case .

On 10 May 2080, former Deputy Prime Minister and UML leader Top Bahadur Rayamazhi, former Home Minister and Congress leader Balkrishna Khan, then Home Secretary Teknarayan Pandey, former MP Angtawa Sherpa and then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa's security adviser Indrajit Rai were charged with fraud, fraud, organized crime and crimes against the state against 30 people, who were already made defendants on 9 May 2081. 5 people including Keshav Dulal and on 4th July 2081 another suspicious character Bechan Jha reached the court on 29th July 2081. Apart from detention hearings/orders, all the three cases have been filed 4 times in 2080, 6 times in 2081 and 26 times in the 4 and a half months since April 2082. Based on the investigation report of District Police Complex Kathmandu, District Public Prosecutor's Office Kathmandu charged 31 people including UML Secretary and House of Representative member Top Bahadur Rayamazhi, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, former Home Minister Balkrishna Khan, former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, security adviser to then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Indrajit Rai, Constituent Assembly member Angtawa Sherpa and Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal against 31 people on charges of fraud, racketeering, organized crime and crime against the state. A case was filed in the court.

Initially, a case was filed against 30 people on 10 June 2080 based on the complaint of Gajendra Budhathoki. Next year, on 9 Baisakh 2081, based on the complaint of Dafuri Sherpa and 5 people including the defendant Keshav Dulal and Gajendra Budhathoki, on 29 July 2081, a supplementary case was filed in the court against Bechan Jha, a suspect in the refugee case . The court proceeded with the trial by placing both the latter cases in the original case .

Former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamazhi, Rayamazhi's son Sandeep Rayamazhi, former Home Minister Balkrishna Khan, then Haj Committee Chairman Shamsher Mian, then Home Minister Khan's personal secretary Narendra KC, then Home Secretary Teknarayan Pandey, then Constituent Assembly member Angtawa Sherpa, then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa's son Prateek Thapa, then Home Minister Thapa's security advisor Indrajit Rai and Raika The case against son Niraj Rai is pending in the court.

In this case, the main middleman Keshav Dulal, his wife Deepa Humagai, another middleman Sanu Bhandari and Sandesh Sharma, who work in the gang network, Tankkumar Gurung, Mohanraj Rai, Niranjankumar Kharel, Keshav Tuladhar, middleman Haribhakt Maharjan and his wife Lakshmi Maharjan, Rajesh Aryal, Vinita Sawden Limbu, Sagar Rai, Ashish Budhathoki, Sunil The case filed against Budhathoki, Ram Sharan KC, Ashok Pokharel, Govind Kumar Chaudhary, Dhiren Rai, Bechan Jha and Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal is also under consideration for the same offence.

About 2 years after the filing of the case, the hearing of the case was overshadowed . When the case was filed, 2 of the 18 people arrested were sent on bail and 16 others were sent to prison. 12 people were absconding . Some of the absconding persons were later arrested and some of the accused are still absconding. According to the records of the district court, the court heard the case 4 times in 2080 and 6 times in 2081. At the time of the

case, Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the Prime Minister and Narayan Kaji Shrestha was the Home Minister. In the last one year after the UML and Congress coalition government, the number of PECs has increased, but since last Baisakh, the most number of PECs have been held 26 times. The last time, in 4 and a half months since 2082 Baisakh, the case has been raised 26 times.

Judge Prem Prasad Neupane's bench ordered 16 people including Rayamazhi, Khan, former secretary Pandey, Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal to be jailed on June 1, 2080, and ordered Tank Gurung, who is in the gang network, to be released on bail of Rs 10 lakh and Lakshmi Maharjan on Rs 5 lakh. In July 2080, he appealed to the Patan High Court against the court's order to send him to prison.

The High Court heard the appeal on November 15 and ordered Haribhakta Maharjan, Narendra KC, Sandeep Rayamazhi, Teknath Rizal and Ramsharan KC to be released on bail and Tank Gurung, Lakshmi Maharjan, Ashish Budhathoki and Keshav Tuladhar on a regular date. The High Court released Rayamazhi on bail of Rs 30 lakh, Rizal, Maharjan and Ramsharan on bail of Rs 15/15 lakh, Narendra KC and Shamsher Mian on bail of Rs 10/10 lakh.

After a difference of opinion between the judges of the High Court, Janak Pandey and Prakash Kharel, whether to keep the former Home Minister Khan in custody or to release him on bail, the decision was set for the next day . Khan was released from the Central Jail on 28 November 2080 after a bench of Justice Krishnaram Koirala ordered him to be released on a bond of Rs 30 lakh. The government did not appeal against the order of the High Court to release the accused Khan on bail in a 'mysterious' manner to benefit the defendant.

Khan was also criticized for not appealing to the High Public Prosecutor's Office under the influence of power. As the miner, who was released on bail from the higher authorities, was being investigated for corruption and money laundering, the Money Laundering Investigation Department gave him a document of 1.5 million and the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority put him on a simple list. Since

, the defendants who were ordered to be remanded by the High Court went to the Supreme Court. On 13 Baisakh 2081, the bench of Justices Kumar Regmi and Tek Prasad Dhungana ordered Angtawa Sherpa and Gobind Choudhary to be released on bail and Shamsher Mian to be released on a regular date and former Deputy Prime Minister Rayamazhi, former Secretary Pandey, middlemen Bhandari, Dulal, Sandesh Sharma, security adviser to the then Home Minister Rai and another middleman Sagar Rai to be kept in custody. They are now in the Central Jail. Bechan Jha, a suspect in the refugee case, who was arrested after supplementary investigation, is also under pretrial detention.

More than 113,000 people who were displaced from Bhutan and took refuge in Nepal were resettled in America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries on the initiative of the United Nations and Nepal's major donor countries. The office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Nepal decided that the United Nations has stopped the third country resettlement program for the remaining refugees and informed the Nepalese government about the matter.

About 6,500 people remaining after third country resettlement are living in various refugee camps in Morang and Jhapa, under the guise of rehabilitating them again in third country, the gang took the state power mechanism and authorized officials into their hands and lured Nepali citizens into fake Bhutanese refugees and sent them to the US to extort huge sums of money. From Jhapa in the east to Kailali in the far west, the gang created a scheme to send the youth to America and ran money extortion business.

In this case, the investigation confirmed the fact that people including the then Home Minister Khan and Home Secretary Pandey and former Deputy Prime Minister Rayamazhi helped the gang by understanding the money. According to the gang's plan, it was also found that a list was prepared to send Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees to the United States by making various decisions at the level of the Cabinet, Home Minister and Home Secretary. Kantipur had published an investigative news about this plan of the gang from May 2079.

After that, during the ongoing investigation, the arrest of some members of the gang from 12 Chait 2079 brought to the surface the fact that the arrest of a person who had been the Deputy Prime Minister, Home Minister and Home Secretary had been taken over by the Rajya Shakti gang.

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These are the accused in the refugee case

Former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamazhi

Sandeep Rayamazhi, son of then Deputy Prime Minister Rayamazhi

Former Home Minister Balkrishna Khan

Then Chairman of Hajj Committee Shamsher Mian

Personal Secretary of then Home Minister Khan Narender KC

Then Home Secretary Teknarayan Pandey

Then Constituent Assembly Member Angtawa Sherpa

Prateek Thapa, son of the then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa

Indrajit Rai, security advisor to the then Home Minister Thapa

Niraj Rai, son of Rai, security advisor to the then Home Minister Thapa