Home ministry has no info about Badal-Bibidh meet

NEPALGUNJ, Nov 9 - The security agencies including the Nepal Police have not provided the home ministry with any information about Kali Bahadur Kham alias Bibidh, the prime accused of the murder of Kathmandu-based businessman Ram Hari Shrestha, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam on ...

...he was asked why the police administration did not arrest the former Maoist commander, who is at large according to the police record, even when he was seen with Defense Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, the home minister said that the bodies concerned did not inform him despite the media reports about the meeting.

While talking to the media in Nepalgunj today, Minister Gautam set himself aside as if it was not the responsibility of the home ministry"saying that some of the accused of the murder have been arrested. He further said that there was no official information about Kham’s presence in the Maoist cantonment.

Media recently reported that Magar met Defense Minister Thapa at the Chitwan District Administration Office on October 26 and has been serving as commander of the Shaktikhor cantonment site in Chitwan despite the Maoists’ claim over his suspension.

The CPN-Maoist had suspended Kham, a former Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) commander, after Shrestha’s murder.

Besides Bibidh, three other Maoist combatants"Govinda Bahadur Batala, Keshav Adhikari and Ganga Bahadur Thapa"were held responsible for the mysterious killing of Shrestha inside Shaktikhor cantonment on April 27.

Under tremendous pressure from various quarters, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and the Maoist leadership had pledged to look for the absconding trio and hand them over to the authorities for legal action. While Batala is in police detention, Adhikari and Thapa are still at large.

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