KATHMANDU, March 6: Kailali District Court has sentenced the main suspects of 2015 Tikapur massacre, lawmaker Resham Lal Chaudhary and ten others to life imprisonment.

A single bench of Justice Parshuram Bhattarai gave the verdict on Wednesday, which also sentence Tharu activists Laxman Tharu and eleven others with three years in jail. Tharu, who has already served his three years term, is set to be released today. 32 more suspects of Tikapur incident are still at large.

On August 24, 2015 armed protesters affiliated with the Tharuhat Struggle Committee had attacked security force attempting to enforce restrictions with axes, scythes and spears in Tikapur, Kailali killing eight, including seven police officers and a two-year old baby.

Rastriya Janata Party Nepal candidate Chaudhary, who won the House of Representative election from Kailali constituency 1filing his candidacy through a representative held on December 7, 2017, had surrendered himself to the Kailali District Court on February 26 last year.

Chaudhary had taken oath of office and secrecy on January 3 while his case was still sub-judice in the court. After swearing-in, he was taken back to the Central Jail at Dilli Bazar from the parliament.

Chaudhary will automatically lose his position as lawmakers . According to law, people convicted of crimes by a court cannot be lawmakers

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KATHMANDU, Dec 15: A High-level Probe Commission on Terai-Madhes unrest led by former justice of the apex court Girish Chandra Lal on Friday has submitted its report to the government.

The commission was formed to find the facts to interrogate and collect complaints on the killings during the Madhes and Tharuhat uprisings.

The Commission prepared the report taking stock the incidents of killing, vandalism, arson and human rights violations in course of the agitations in Madhes and Tharuhat following the promulgation of the new Constitution.

The 709-page report has been handed over to the government, said Prime Minister’s Private Secretary Badri Prasad Tiwari. While receiving the report, PM Sher Bahadur Deuba thanked the commission for submission of the assigned tasks. He further assured to take ahead the process to implement the report.

Similarly, the commission chair Lal had briefed the procedure followed during the preparation of the report. He also extended gratefulness to the government for allocating the responsibly to the commission.

The tenure of the committee – formed on 18 September 2016 –was extended three times in the past. RSS