Balkrishna Dhungel, an aspiring politico of Okhaldhunga, was angry about an inter-ethnic marriage in the family which involved Ujjan Kumar Shrestha. On 24 June 1998, he led a cohort that waylaid Ujjan close to trail to Ramechhap.
Dhungel shot Ujjan Kumar dead, and the body was dumped into the Likhu River, never available. Later, Ujjan’s brother Ganesh Kumar Shrestha was murdered by a Maoist group for daring to approach the court in regards to the murder. Ganesh’s daughter, Rachana, who had innocently complained her father working using the family terrace, committed suicide out of guilt.
Dhungel went on to fight the CA elections in April 2006 and terrorised the voters to get elected. Convicted of murder by the district court and reconfirmed on appeal by the Supreme court in January 2010, Dhungel moved about freely as member of the CA, mocking the justice process. Today, Jagat Das and Ram Kumari, middle aged people parents of the two dead brothers, as well dauntless sister Sabitri, are fighting Pm Baburam Bhattarai to have recommended a presidential pardon for Dhungel.
It is a brutal irony that the allegedly upright prime minister of Nepal has surrounded himself with unreformed bandits and murderers. Balkrishna Dhungel is on the the surface of that list, enjoying off the cover of impunity provided via Maoist top brass. Bhattarai is also close for the murder- accused Prabhu Sah of Birgunj, recently forced out of the cabinet.
Bhattarai also enjoys the support of countless other human rights violators of the conflict era, including, appeared said, the un-apprehended killers of teacher Muktinath Adhikari of Lamjung. With his weak support within the party, Bhattarai obviously has brought to scrape the bottom of the barrel put together his own support base.
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