The National Human Rights Commission has urged the agitators, political parties and all parties concerned to call off all the protest programmes and sit for talks.

In a statement, the national rights body has called on the parties concerned to find a political solution to the ongoing protests in Tarai districts. It has also urged the government to reconsider deployment of security forces in the field and initiate dialogue with the agitators to find an amicable solution.

The commission, in a statement signed by the Commission Chair Anup Raj Sharma, has also asked the government to investigate into the killings

of 11 individuals in Mahottari Dhanusha and Saptari districts. It has condemned the killing of Armed Police Force’s Assistant Sub Inspector Thaman Bahadur BK by the protesters on Friday. BK, who was being taken to hospital, was dragged out of the ambulance and beaten to death.