What is in the report prepared by the Human Rights Commission on the Gaur incident?

In this report, the commission has called the Gaur incident a heinous crime.

Poush 25, 2082

Durga Dulal

What is in the report prepared by the Human Rights Commission on the Gaur incident?

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Many are interested in the incident, as the police have resumed their investigation after 19 years into the murder of 27 people in Gaur, Rautahat.

Despite repeated complaints from the victims, the government did not conduct a criminal investigation, so the commission was deployed to conduct an on-site investigation 16 years after the incident. The commission prepared a report on the incident on 22 January 2079. After the commission made the report public, it recommended that the government take action against some involved in the incident and compensate the victim's family.

The commission called the Gaur incident a heinous crime in its report. The commission's meeting held on 19 January 2079 concluded that the incident was planned, intentional and cruel. The commission, while making public the list of the dead and injured, recommended departmental action against the then Chief Superintendent of Police Yogeshwor Romkhami of the District Police Office Rautahat and the then Chief District Officer Madhav Prasad Ojha, the then Superintendent of Police Ram Kumar Khanal, Deputy Superintendent of Armed Police Dharmananda Sapkota and Deputy Superintendent of Police Kamakhya Narayan Singh while they were still in service, for failing to fulfill their responsibility to prevent human rights violations.

What is in the report prepared by the Human Rights Commission on the Gaur incident?

On 7 Chaitra 2063, a dispute arose after the then Madhesi Janadhikar Forum and the Maoists tried to hold a program at the same place at Rice Mills Chaur in Gaur. The commission had made separate recommendations, including filing a criminal case, compensation, and action after the investigation. The commission has also asked the state not to provide any additional opportunities in the future in the event of retirement. The commission had also recommended taking action against the then chiefs of the Rautahat District Police Office for not taking any action, investigating, or prosecuting the Kitani complaint even after 16 years of the incident.

The Commission had also directed to immediately investigate and investigate the complaint filed at the District Police Office, Rautahat on 28 Baisakh 2064 (2007) and to register charges against the persons found guilty in the ‘Report of the Judicial Inquiry Commission on the Gaur Incident, 2007’ constituted by the Government of Nepal and to file charges against the persons mentioned in Decision No. 9. The Commission had also asked to send a progress report to the Commission every three months.

Since it was seen that the families of the deceased have not been able to receive any relief and compensation from the Government of Nepal so far, it was asked to provide compensation of at least three hundred thousand rupees per person to each family of the deceased as soon as possible and inform the Commission within three months as per Section 16 of the National Human Rights Commission Act, 2068 (2006).

The Commission had also recommended to identify the injured who require long-term treatment and arrange for free treatment and to provide reimbursement of treatment expenses for the injured who have already been treated but have borne the expenses themselves. The commission has said that the role of the National Investigation Office in the district has been extremely inactive even when such a heinous crime was committed, and has asked for an evaluation of its effectiveness and accountability of the then head of the office who did not fulfill his responsibilities. The Supreme Court has issued a mandate to conduct an investigation based on this recommendation of the commission.

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