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The question raised by former minister Aftab Alam Unmukti is disturbing the hearts of all justice-loving Nepalis. "Industry" of making bombs with the intention of winning the election by luring the opposition voters was against the election code of conduct and was punished for it.
That aside, it is understandable why Alam, who committed an unthinkable crime by throwing the 24 youths dead and injured in the brick kiln alive on 27 Chait 2064 while making a bomb to avoid crime by destroying the evidence, tried to protect him from the beginning. Since the
, the suffering of the victim is very pathetic and the judicial process is equally long and expensive. Pintu's father Sreenarayan Singh and OC's mother Ruksana, who were recently killed in the brick kiln, approached the Supreme Court and demanded that the Attorney General's decision should be quashed. Ruksana is shot and killed when Alam's men insist on withdrawing the case or settling. Finally, the bench of Supreme Court Justices Sushila Karki and Bharat Bahadur Karki gave an order on 16th June 2069 against Alam to 'initiate an investigation and take further evidence and take action according to the prevailing law', but it was not followed. After that, after Advocate Pushpa Poudel petitioned the Supreme Court to file a contempt case against the Attorney General's Office, an order was issued again on 6 June 2076 to immediately investigate the incident and prosecute the case. During this, Alam, who was arrested on 26 October 2076, was sent to jail pending trial according to the decision made by District Court Rautahat on 29 October 2076.
On 13 Baisakh 2081, Alam and his two brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment by Rautahat District Court, but Alam, who appealed, was acquitted by Janakpur High Court's Virgunj bench on May 14. Soon after, Alam suffered a brain haemorrhage.
In the period of 18 years after the crime, the victim himself changed his statement. Some did not dare to complain. Some may have said, "Whatever happened!" The statement may be true, Rautahat's then police chief SP Laxman Neupane was killed. After June 14, the wish of the big leader who wanted to save Alam may have been fulfilled. But when did the 84-year-old Srinarayan Singh, the father of Pintu, the lone warrior of this case, stop crying after 18 years of waiting for justice? Is justice done in this country?
- Indra Kumar Shrestha , Okhaldhunga
Addressing a public program held in Bhairahawa about 2 years ago, Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said, 'Aftab Alam is innocent, I will do whatever it takes to free him.' Should the president of the country's biggest party speak like that in a case pending in the court or not? Not only this, the fact has come out that Judge Khushi Ram Tharu who acquitted Alam was also a judge appointed from the Congress quota.
Why all this drama to save a person involved in a crime? When people's hope and trust towards political parties is decreasing, it will not take long to restore people's hope towards the courts with such decisions.
– Gopal Devkota , Jorpati, Kathmandu
