Incident Reports

Police Refuses to Register Conflict-time Case

2013-10-04

Bardiya, Dwand kaal ko muddha prahari le darta garena. Bardiya/October 4 The conflict victim families have complained that the police, on October 4, refused to register their case citing shortness of procedures. Conflict Victims Society informed that three families had gone to District Police Office to file the complaint of six victims of three incidents. Society added that in two cases, the perpetrators are security forces and one involves the Maoists. DSP Rajendra Dhamala said that the complaints were refused, not intentionally, but they were lacking in fulfill the requirements of a complaint. He added that the people coming to register the case had not been to provide the body, postmortem report of the body, details of deeds conducted by police. After the police refused to register the case, the families went to District Administration Office to file the complaint of police act. When DR Man Bahadur DK, the CDO expressed his inability to interfere, he told them to move court, Conflict Victims Society chairperson Bhagiram informed. Narayan Sapkota and Dil Bahadur Khadka of Kalika VDC- 4 were killed by the Maoists on March 23, 2004 on charge of being informers. The family had gone to file a complaint of killing. Likewise, Suresh Kumar Tharu, Karna Bahadur Tharu and Kanhiaya Lal of Dhadhawas were killed in captivity of the army on March 14, 2002. Anil Kumar Tharu, 15, of Dhadhawar VDC-5 was shot dead after being arrested by the security forces on March 25, 2004, as he was going to the school. The families of the victims said that they will go to court after the CDO expressed his inability to ask police to register the case. The human rights defenders including that from INSEC, Advocacy Forum and ICJ had accompanied them to the police station.

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