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Chitwan court to record statement of Gangamaya
The Chitwan District Court has decided to record a statement of Gangamaya Adhikari, who has resumed fast-unto-death strike in Bir Hospital demanding justice over the murder of her son during the Maoist insurgency.The Chitwan District Court has decided to record a statement of Gangamaya Adhikari, who has resumed fast-unto-death strike in Bir Hospital demanding justice over the murder of her son during the Maoist insurgency.
The court on Sunday decided to send registrar Gehendra Raj Panta in the Capital and record Gangamaya’s statement. “The testimony of Gangamaya Adhikari will be recorded on September 18. The court gave its verdict to collect proofs of the case,” said district judge Tek Narayan Kunwar. The single bench of Kunwar set the hearing date for September 25.
Gangamaya along with her husband Nanda Prasad had staged a fast-onto-death, demanding justice to their murdered son, but the latter died on July 5, 2014. Nanda Prasad’s body is still at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital morgue. The Adhikari family has refused to receive the body until they got justice.
Krishna Prasad, the youngest son of the Adhikari couple from Fujel of Gorkha, was allegedly killed by the then Maoist rebels after abduction on June 6, 2004.