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Issue arrest warrant against Bal Krishna Dhungel: SC orders IGP Aryal
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the newly appointed Inspector General (IG) of Nepal Police Prakash Aryal to arrest former lawmaker Bal Krishna Dhungel, an absconding murder convict, within seven days.The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the newly appointed Inspector General (IG) of Nepal Police Prakash Aryal to arrest former lawmaker Bal Krishna Dhungel, an absconding murder convict, within seven days.
A single bench of Justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai directed IG Aryal to issue an arrest warrant against Dhungel.
Responding to a writ petition filed by lawyer Dinesh Tripathi on contempt of court case, Justice Bhattarai also ordered IG Aryal to deploy all the police personnel under his command to arrest the former lawmaker.
At a programme organised in Sainpu VDC of Ramechhap district on March 12, a CPN (Maoist Centre) leader had expressed sheer dissatisfaction with the SC verdict over him and warned of physical attack against the Judge issuing verdict against him.
“I will not obey the SC verdict and will scrap the order against me,” Dhungel said, adding, “I will issue warrant against the Judge who issued such verdict. I will not go to jail until I punish the Judge.”
During the programme, he had warned of attacking Chief Justice Sushila Karki and former Justices Kalyan Shrestha and Khilraj Regmi.
The SC has also criticised the Home Ministry and Nepal Police for not helping to implement the court’s verdict.
Dhungel was found guilty of killing one Ujjan Kumar Shrestha of Okhaldhunga in 1998. The Okhaldhunga District Court had convicted Dhungel, along with eight others, in the murder case in 2004.
The court had sentenced them to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The Rajbiraj Appellate Court had given Dhungel a clean chit in 2006.
Responding to the appeal of victim’s sister Sabitri Shrestha, the apex court upheld the district court’s verdict in 2010. However, he was never arrested.