Kathmandu, August 15
Former minister and spokesperson of Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led Communist Party of Nepal, Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma, has confessed that he colleges millions of rupees as donations from various traders and industrialists.
He was arrested from Kathmandu last week for allegedly forcing businesspersons to pay him hefty donations.
Police who interrogated him during an investigation say Bishwakarma accepted that he demanded financial, physical and moral support from various people.
“I did not collect donations, but just assistance,” he reportedly told police, “This is the policy of our party.”
Police investigation found that he was involved in collecting donations worth Rs 75.6 million in total in past two years.
Meanwhile, police are producing him before the Supreme Court on Thursday in compliance with an order of the court that it issued in response to a habeas corpus writ.
Bishwakarma’s son Narendra Bahadur had filed the writ.
