INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, July 27
Employees of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, along with members of the Local Level Employees Union, halted all official works
of the local government today, protesting the recent arrest of one of the ward chairs in the metropolis.
The anti-human trafficking bureau
of Nepal Police had recently arrested Shree Gopal Maharjan for allegedly producing fake relationship verification certificate
Police suspected that the same certificate was used for illegal kidney transplantation at Bharatpur-based College of Medical Sciences
Teaching Hospital on 10 June 2019.
Maharjan was arrested on July 12 along with 11 other accused accomplices, including three doctors and two
police personnel.
Following his arrest, work at all wards of the local government was halted for the day.
The employees, issuing a press
release, stated that police had unnecessarily pulled the ward chair into the scheme
They also urged the police to direct the investigations to the right track to find out real culprits in the case.
Chiri Babu Maharjan, mayor
of LMC, said that although he did not favour employees act of halting work, the police action cannot be justified as the ward chair seems to
have been tricked into doing so.
The first original copy of the relationship certificate was genuine, but it looks like fraudsters had
cheated them while acquiring the second copy of the certificate, Maharjan said.
He also said that Maharjan could be charged for negligence,
but his role in the crime could not be justified.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on July 28, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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