The Appellate Court of Janakpur has directed the District Police Office in Ramechhap to conduct an investigation into the murder of Ganesh Kumar Shrestha of Ramechhap. A division bench of Justices Purushottam Bhandari and Megh Nath Bhattarai ordered DPO Ramechhap to complete the investigation within six months and initiate the action against the perpetrator. Ganesh Kumar Shrestha was shot dead while he was working at a field in Sanghutar, Ramechhap, on November 22, 2002. His younger brother, Ujjan Kumar Shrestha, was also killed at Okhaldhunga in 1998. The Supreme Court has given life imprisonment to former UCPN-M lawmaker Balkrishna Dhungel, among others, in the murder of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha. According to Shrestha's family, Dhungel also masterminded the murder of Ganesh.

Binod Kumar Rabidas