Police have found no promising leads so far in the shooting incidents that took place six days apart in Kathmandu and Lalitpur early this month. 

Dawa Lama, a local thug from Boudha, was shot by a gunman outside a fitness centre at Dibya Marga in Guhyeshwari on April 11. The incident was captured in a CCTV, where the masked gunman is seen drawing a pistol from a bag and shooting at Lama on his back at the centre’s gate.

Police are yet to identify the shooter. Moments after the Lama was attacked, Senior Superintendent of Police Chabilal Joshi had received a phone call from a man owning up to the incident. It was later discovered that the caller, identifying to be a Hong Kong-based businessman, had used an internet gateway to hide his location, and possibly to distract the investigation. 

There are rumours that Lama was attacked by a rival gang, but police have not arrested any suspects. 

“Investigation takes time. We don’t want to arrest wrong persons,” said SSP Dinesh Amatya, the chief of the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Crime Division 

at Teku. 

Just a week after the attack on Lama, there was another shooting incident. This time in Lalitpur. The victim, Santosh Khadka, of Federation of National Christian Nepal. 

Khadka was shot just above his left hip on April 16. But he has been maintaining that though he sought medical attention after the incident, he did not realise that he had been shot until an X-ray examination on the next day showed a bullet lodged inside his wound. 

Who shot at Khadka remains a mystery. Police strongly suspect that the person who shot Khadka is linked with the same group that set fire in a church in Lalitpur on April 18.  

But with the arsonists still unidentified, it offers nothing to Khadka’s case, just like the anonymous caller who took blame for Lama’s shooting.