The Kathmandu District Court has ordered the submission of the report of the Balkrishna Panthi Task Force in the criminal case of sending Nepali citizens to the US as fake Bhutanese refugees. The bench of Justice Khimananda Bhusal on Tuesday ordered the District Government Attorney's Office to submit the report of the Panthi Task Force. On 14 Baisakh, the court had ordered the submission of documents related to the refugee case, but the schedule of the Panthi Task Force's report was found to be incomprehensible, informed officer Hemanta Bhattarai. According to him, the case has now reached the stage of regular hearing and the case will be fixed after the requested report is received.

The refugee case has been pending in the court for 3 years. During the Gen-G movement on 24 Bhadra, the files and documents of the Kathmandu District Court and the Kathmandu District Government Attorney's Office were also destroyed when the building was burnt down. The court had last ordered the submission of documents related to the case last week after the destroyed missiles were re-established.

The then KP Sharma Oli-led government had formed a task force under the leadership of former Joint Secretary Panthi to submit a report with suggestions for the management of the remaining 6,500 refugees after resettlement in third countries. When the task force submitted a report to the government with suggestions for resettlement in third countries and management in Nepal, an organized gang forged the schedule of the same report and played a game by sending 429 Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees to the US. In that case, Keshav Dulal, Sanu Bhandari, Sandesh Sharma and others of the gang, along with the then Home Minister Balkrishna Khand and his then Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, had extorted money from people from Jhapa to Kanchanpur and committed crimes under the cover of Bhutanese refugees. During the investigation into this matter, a case was filed in the District Court on 10 Jestha 2080 against 30 people including former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, then Home Minister Khand, Secretary Pandey, Constituent Assembly member and Congress leader Angtawa Sherpa, and then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa's security advisor Indrajit Rai on charges of forgery, fraud, organized crime and crimes against the state.