The district court in Kathmandu was supposed to hold the final hearing on the crime of fraud in which Nepali citizens were made fake Bhutanese refugees and taken to America, but it did not happen.

Although the court was set on Wednesday to settle the case in continuous hearing, the bench of Judge Dhruvraj Karki only made an order. 

Defendant Shamsher Mian has ordered to submit after the expiry of the date if the date is not taken as the date has passed and there is still a period to hold the date. District Court Information Officer Deepak Shrestha said that the court will wait until the time is allowed and then pay the fee so that a regular hearing will be held.  When did

 start ?
In the 1990s, the refugees who arrived in Nepal from Bhutan via India were kept in different camps in Jhapa and Morang in eastern Nepal. More than 100,000 refugees awaiting repatriation were forced to choose a third country for resettlement after 15 rounds of talks between Nepal and Bhutan failed to provide a solution until 2003. 

More than 113,000 people who came to Nepal and took refuge were resettled in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries on the initiative of the United Nations and major donor countries of Nepal. The Office of the High Commission for Refugees in Nepal decided that the United Nations has stopped the third country resettlement program for the rest of the refugees and informed the Government of Nepal about the process.

About 6,500 people who were resettled in third countries were living in various refugee camps in Morang and Jhapa. While initiatives were being taken on the management of these remaining refugees, the Ministry of Home Affairs formed a working group to prepare their schedule. At this time, under the guise of rehabilitating a third country, the gang took the state power mechanism and the authorized officials into their hands, and lured Nepalese citizens to be fake Bhutanese refugees and send 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.

Kantipur raised the issue of political leadership's collusion with a gang of 875 Nepalis who raised 10 to 50 lakhs from 875 Nepalis for making Bhutanese refugees and taking them to America. The police arrested the accused and started investigation after the complaint that Nepali citizens were also listed as refugees while collecting money through corruption as a matter of policy. What's going on in the district court case ?  Based on the investigation report of District Police Complex Kathmandu, District Public Prosecutor's Office Kathmandu has charged 31 people including UML secretary and House of Representatives member Top Bahadur Rayamazhi, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, former Home Minister Balkrishna Khan, former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa's security adviser Indrajit Rai, Constituent Assembly member Angtawa Sherpa and Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal

against 31 people including fraud, racketeering, organized crime and A case was filed in the court on charges of crime against the state.
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 putting both the latter cases into 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.

District sent to jail, High on bail 

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.

and those who are imprisoned reach the highest level  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.

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. The

was that Kantipur had published a
investigative news from June 2079 about this plan of the gang.

After that, during the ongoing investigation, the arrest of some members of the gang from 12 Chait 2079 revealed 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 state power gang. 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
Haj Committee then Chairman Shamsher Mian 
Private secretary of the then Home Minister Khan Narendra KC 
The then Home Secretary Teknarayan Pandey 
then member of the Constituent Assembly Angtawa Sherpa 
Prateek Thapa, son of the then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa
Indrajit Rai, security adviser of the then Home Minister Thapa 
Niraj Rai, the son of Rai's security adviser to then Home Minister Thapa 
refugee case mediator Keshav Dulal 
The middleman Dulal's wife Deepa Humagai 
refugee case mediator Sanu Bhandari 
Accused working in gang network :
Tankkumar Gurung 
Mohanraj Rai 

Niranjan Kumar Kharel 
Keshav Tuladhar 
Haribhakta Maharjan 
Maharjan's wife Lakshmi Maharjan
Rajesh Aryal 
Vinita Savaden Limbu 
Sagar Rai 
Ashish Budhathoki 
Sunil Budhathoki 
Ramsharan KC 
Sandesh Sharma 
Ashok Pokharel 
Govind Kumar Chaudhary 
Dhiren Rai 
Bechan Jha 
Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rizal
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