INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: Former inspector general of Nepal Police Sarbendra Khanal, ruling NCP lawmakers Mahesh Basnet and Krishna Kumar Shrestha and
Nabin Basnet on Monday went to the National Human Rights Commission to lodge a complaint against Surendra Kumar Yadav.
Khanal and Shrestha
said Yadav came with them on his own volition.
&We did not violate Yadav human rights
If his rights were violated, it was not because of us but because of Baburam Bhattarai and Ang Kaji Sherpa who came to Marriot Hotel and
took him with them,& Shrestha said.
Shrestha said they had submitted copies of audio and digital interview given by Yadav saying he was not
Yadav lawyer Thakur said Kathmandu police would have to investigate the case and submit its preliminary report within three days.
&If the
report states that there is no need to proceed with an investigation, then government attorneys need not investigate, but they should give a
reason for not doing so,& Thakur said.
He added that if the government attorneys were not satisfied with police arguments, they could order
police to carry out further investigation.
He said Kathmandu police would have to record the statement of Yadav and defendants once the FIR
was dispatched to them.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on May 5, 2020 of The Himalayan Times.
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