murderers of journalist dekendra raj thapa – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com Impart Educate Propel Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:29:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://nepalireporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-RN_Logo-32x32.png murderers of journalist dekendra raj thapa – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com 32 32 Police suspends three senior Police officers of Dailekh, Ministry calls back CDO https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/6185 https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/6185#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:20:23 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=6185 KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Home Affairs today called back the Chief District Officer of Dailekh Umesh Prasad Dhakal while Nepal Police all of sudden suspended three senior police officers of the district for their failure to maintain security provision on Wednesday while the Prime Minister and top UCPN (Maoist) leaders landed in Dailekh to address a public program.

CDO Dhakal has been ordered to make his presence at the Ministry.

DSP Sarada Prasad Chaudhary and Inspectors Indra Subedi and Kiran Neupane were suspended today for their ‘failure to maintain’ security order while Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai landed in Dailekh.

In a series of clashes on Wednesday between the Maoists and anti-Maoist cadres, scores cadres were injured while the cadres of the opposition parties blazed the Maoist district office.

 

]]> https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/6185/feed 3 UCPN (Maoist) Vs Oppns in Dailekh https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/4985 https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/4985#respond Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:38:48 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=4985 DAILEKH: Dailekh district is fearing a possible clash today after the six opposition parties– Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and others– in the district called a district shutdown program against the Nepal’s Prime Minister’s statement to protect the murders of journalist Dekendra Raj Thapa.

Top leaders of UCPN (Maoist) including Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Prime Minister and Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice-chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha and western region in-charge of the party Shakti Basnet are arriving here to address the district convention of the party. Last week, Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai and the UCPN (Maoist) party had directed the officials of the district to halt the process for action against the murder accused of Dailekh based journalist Thapa.

Maoist cadres have already admitted their involvement in killing journalist Thapa during the decade long insurgency. A large number of security forces have been deployed in the district suspecting possible clash between the opposition and Maoist cadres. Some 400 additional personnel of the Armed Police Force and Nepal Police have been taken from Nepalgunj and Surkhet to avert the possible clash.

A Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Nepal Police has given the charge of the entire security of the district. Similarly, the opposition parties have been staging anti-government protests from early morning while thousand of cadres of ruling UCPN (Maoist) have also arrived in the district headquarters to attend a mass meeting organized by the party.

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