Kathmandu, April 26
Police in Kathmandu have refused to register a complaint against two lawmakers of the ruling Nepal Communist Party and a former chief of Nepal Police.
Top leaders of the newly unified People’s Socialist Party Nepal had gone to the Teku-based Metropolitan Police Range to file the complaint claiming lawmakers Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha, and former IGP Sarbendra Khanal abducted the party leader Surendra Yadav last week.
Earlier, it was reported that the three had forced Yadav to come to Kathmandu from his house in Mahottari district as the ruling party was arranging for the Samajwadi Party’s split. However, the Samajwadi Party merged with the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal on the same day to form the People’s Socialist Party Nepal.
The accused, however, have been insisting Yadav had agreed to come to Kathmandu to talk to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Responding to the leaders, police officers said the complaint should be filed in Mahottari district itself as the incident took place there.
Following that, the party’s leader Baburam Bhattarai said it was another example of the state’s criminalisation.
