KATHMANDU, July 4: Gangster-turned politician Rajiv Gurung aka Deepak Manange has joined the ruling Nepal Communist Party on Thursday.

Chief Minister of Gandaki Province welcomed Gurung, a province assembly member of Gandaki Province, to the party amid a function today morning. CM Gurung also handed over the party’s statute to Gurung.

On January 16 last year, the Supreme Court, upholding Patan Appellate Court’s verdict of 2013, had sentenced Gurung with five years in prison on the charge of attempted murder. He was arrested from Swyambhu on April 20, 2018 for his involvement in chopping the right hand of another gangster Milan Chakre in 2005. A case of attempted murder was file against him at the Kathmandu District Court.

He was then released from Dillibazar prison on bail in December following the order of Supreme Court.

The notorious gangster, who was elected to provincial assembly in Province 4 from Manang (B) as an independent candidate, had taken the oath of office and secrecy as province assembly member in January.

On the occasion, Pushpa Karki, a leader of the outlawed Chand-led Comunist Party of Nepal, also joined the NCP.

KATHMANDU, April 19: Metropolitan police have arrested Rajib Gurung ake Deepak Manange from Swoyambhu on Thursday.

Manange was elected as an independent candidate to province assembly from Manang district.

He had been absconding since the Supreme Court, upholding the Patan Appellate’s verdict, sentenced a five-year jail term to him on murder charge to him in January.

The Interpol had also issued a red corner notice against Manange. He has not not administered oath as the Provincial Assembly member till date.

Supreme Court sentences five-year jail term to Deepak Manange

KATHMANDU, March 18: The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has issued a red corner notice against Rajib Gurung aka Deepak Manange, who is on the run following an arrest order by the Supreme Court on January 16.

The notice was issued at the initiative of Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal police. The issuance of red corner notice means police of 192 members countries of Interpol will be searching for Manange.

The police have intensified the search, through the Interpol, for fugitive Provincial Assembly member Rajib Gurung, known as Dipak Manange, said Nepal Police’s Spokesperson Manoj Neupane.

Manange, a murder convict, won a PA seat from Manang province (B) in the recently held elections to the Province Assemblies.

The court convicted and sentenced Manange to five years in prison upholding the verdict of the then Appellate Court in his case.

The Interpol red corner notice means, Police of 192 member countries will be searching for Manange.

“A search has been up for Manange at home and abroad,” said Neupane.

GANESH LAMA AND ACCOMPLICE GET CLEAN CHIT

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: The Supreme Court on Tuesday has sentenced a five-year jail term to the newly elected Province Assembly member Deepak Manange aka Rajeev Gurung on murder charge upholding the then Patan Appellate’s verdict.

A joint bench of Justices Deepak Raj Joshi and Purushottam Bhandari issued the verdict.

The Office of the District Attorney had lodged a case in the Kathmandu District Court over the issue of attacking Milan Chakre with Khukuri by the gang members of Dipak Manange in May 2004. Police had filed a murder case on Manange and his accomplice Ganesh Lama, Rewat Karki, Ramesh Sunuwar and Umesh Lama.

The Kathmandu District Court ruling out that it was a murder case had issued a verdict sentencing two years of imprisonment to Manange while it had given a clean chit to Ganesh Lama, Rewat Karki, Ramesh Sunuwar and Umesh Lama.

Later on, the District Attorney Office had challenged the District Court’s verdict in the Patan Appellate Court. The Patan Appellate Court had sentenced five years jail term to Manange while the verdict of the district court to give clean chit to four others was upheld.

The Office of the Attorney General had also lodged the case in the SC demanding jail term to four others of the Manange gang. But the SC upheld the Patan Appellate Court’s verdict.

According to Joint Attorney General Sanjeev Raj Regmi , an appeal was not made in the name of Manange in the Supreme Court. Though the SC upheld the verdict of the Patan Appellate Court, it has not mentioned anything about the issue of Manange.

Manange, who contested the election as an independent candidate, won the province assembly election from Manang-1 (B). But, with the SC’s verdict, he is suspended from the post before taking oath.