KATHMANDU: Nepali Army colonel arrested war crime torture by the British police earlier has been granted bail by the local court on Friday.

The Chelmsford Crown Court has pressed £10,000 amount for bailing out Lama the BBC reported quoting Nepali ambassador to UK, Suresh Chalise.

The report further said that Lama will be out of the bars once the Nepali government posts the bail. With the proceedings done in time, Lama is expected to be out by next week at the earliest.

Lama, a serving colonel of the Nepal Army was arrested on January 3 by the British Metropolitan Police in Sussex for alleged war crimes committed by him in 2005.

Earlier in January 24, he was sent to judicial custody till May 10.

He was arrested as per the Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, which permits the UK to arrest and prosecute people accused of human rights abuses committed overseas, even if the crime is not connected to events in the UK.

Lama had been serving his term with the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Sudan.

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has warned that investigating war-crimes committed by both sides will derail the ongoing peace process.

Bhattarai while maintaining that Nepal is committed to try all war-crimes by forming Truth and Reconciliation Commission and transitional justice mechanisms, claimed that war-crimes should not be prosecuted through existing legal mechanisms.

Speaking at a program in the capital on Friday, the Maoist Prime Minister said that investigating war-crimes committed by both sides- Maoist and the government- will derail the peace process.

He asserted that Nepal will try all cases of war-crimes including murders, rapes, extortion, forced disappearances through TRC.

Arguing that the government has already pushed to form the TRC, he accused political parties of not supporting its move to endorse the ordinance, that has been awaiting the President’s endorsement for some months now.