Speaking at the Social, Judicial and Human Rights Committee under the Legislature-Parliament on Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Gautam said the government was ready to take action against the accused murderers of Krishna Prasad but they could not be brought to book in lack of sufficient evidence and senior Adhikari died before his demands to punish the guilty of the incident was fulfilled.

DPM Gautam said amongst the two accused one of them died in the decade-long conflict while other is in the UK and the Nepali court has not yet proved his involvement. Thus the government is in difficulty to forward the action, said the home minister, adding that the other people accused in the murder case have been released on a general date.

The government on different dates tried to end Adhikari couple's fast-unto-death strike but failed as their demands increased one after another claiming that the Adhikari couple demanded compensation of two billion rupees but it was not possible to provide such compensation from the government.

Ganga Maya, wife of Nanda Prasad Adhikari, has been fed with all kind of nutrition through saline as she refuses to break the hunger strike, he added.

Nanda’s son Krishna Adhikari, then 18 years old, was murdered after abduction by the then rebel Maoists from his home in Fujel of Gorkha district in 2004. His body was later found in Chitwan.