![Ranjita Shrestha, the wife of Resham Chaudhary, has applied for the registration of the Nagarik Unmukti Party, on Monday, January 3, 2022.](https://english.onlinekhabar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ranjita-shrestha-resham-chaudhary.jpg)
Kathmandu, May 17
The Nagarik Unmukti Party has announced various protest programmes against the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the life imprisonment handed down to Resham Chaudhary, who has been proven guilty of the murder of some police personnel in Tikapur of Kailali in 2015.
The party is led by Chaudhary’s wife Ranjita Shrestha, who is the land management minister in the current coalition government.
One day after the apex court endorsed the high court’s decision to sentence Chaudhary to life imprisonment, the party announced protest programmes demanding the government make public the report of the Lal commission formed to investigate rights violations during the Madhesh-Tharuhat movement in 2015.
As per an announcement issued by the party’s senior vice-chairman Damodar Pandit, the protests will begin today.
The party has been stressing that the Tikapur incident was a political event, hence it should be settled politically.
Chaudhary is serving his sentence at Dillibazar Prison, Kathmandu.
Perviously, the government had been trying to get him out as it introduced a new bill with the aim of releasing him on May 11.