Kathmandu, April 9 (IANS) Nepal’s former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, on Thursday, were released from judicial custody following an order from the Supreme Court, after spending 13 days in jail.The two were arrested on March 28 in connection with a culpable homicide-related case linked to the suppression of Gen Z protests in September last year that left several protesters dead.Hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by the families of Oli and Lekhak, the …
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Kathmandu, March 25 (IANS) A high-level inquiry commission formed to investigate incidents during last year’s Gen-Z movement in Nepal has recommended a criminal investigation and prosecution of former Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, and then Police Chief Chandra Kuber Khapung. The commission, led by Gauribahadur Karki, pointed to recklessness and negligence by Oli and Lekhak in connection with the deaths of protesters on September 8, and recommended action ag…
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepal’s probe panel investigating September’s Gen Z protests and its aftermath, which had reportedly left over 70 people dead and led to the fall of the K. P. Sharma Oli government, finally submitted its report to interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki on Sunday. There was some reluctance earlier in certain quarters within the current administration in accepting the report running into 1,000 pages, drafted by the three-member committee, headed by a retired judge of Ne…