The district court is going to hold the final hearing after about 2 and a half years after the case was filed on five charges including organized crime.
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The final hearing of the case filed against the former home minister and other high-ranking officials on the charge of taking Nepalese citizens as fake Bhutanese refugees and taking them to America is starting today. It has been claimed in the charge sheet that Nepali citizens were made Bhutanese refugees by preparing fake documents in the plan of an organized gang.
The district court is going to hold the final hearing after about 2 and a half years after the case was filed on five charges including organized crime. On 10th June 2080, a case was filed against 30 people including 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 security adviser of the then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Indrajit Rai, for embezzlement, fraud, organized crime and crime against the state.
5 people including Keshav Dulal, who was already made a defendant on 9 Baisakh 2081, and another suspect Bechan Jha on 4 July 2081, were filed on 29 July 2081 against a supplementary charge sheet. In addition to detention hearings/orders, all the three cases were filed 4 times in 2080, 6 times in 2081 and 26 times in 4 and a half months from April 2082.
Earlier, the district court had given notice to the witnesses who were absent. The bench of the then judge of the district court, Prem Prasad Neupane, had ordered that the arrested person be kept in custody and ordered to proceed with the trial of the case. After the
, some of the accused were released from the High Court on bail and remand. 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 2081, the case did not receive priority. Since April alone, 10 times weekly and 16 times supplementary payment was made in the case of refugee 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, as well as working in the gang network, Tankkumar Gurung, Mohanraj Rai, Niranjankumar Kharel, Keshav Tuladhar, middleman Haribhakt Maharjan, his wife Lakshmi Maharjan, Rajesh Aryal, Vinita Savaden Limbu, Sagar Rai, Ashish Budhathoki, The case filed against Sunil Budhathoki, Ram Sharan KC, Ashok Pokharel, Govind Kumar Chaudhary, Dhiren Rai, Bechan Jha and Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal is also under consideration. When the
case was filed, 2 of the 18 people arrested were released on bail and 16 others were sent to jail. 12 people were absconding. Later, some absconding persons were arrested, but 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. Information officer Deepak Kumar Shrestha informed that the district court is now preparing to make the final decision after continuous hearing.
