Author: Gaurav Pokharel

Serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who is in Kathmandu’s Central Jail, repeatedly tells his visitors, “I will be released from prison in two to three weeks.” It is not just the visitors, but the 78-year-old French national tells the same thing to security officers. Around April 2021, he created a sensation by giving interviews to the British media platforms, Mirror and Daily Mail claiming the same. In a telephone interview, Sobharaj not only insisted that he would be released within three to four weeks but also stated that he was illegally held in a Nepali prison and demanded compensation. According to the officers, Charles Sobhraj…

There are 26 thousand prisoners across the country. Every prison is a village and Chaukidar, Naike, and Bhai-Naike, are leaders behind the bar. They are the government and they run their empire in this village. But, there is also the interest of the power centers inside it. How?

Asibul Miya, 60, is alone in his house in Paklawan in Kachankawal rural municipality in the Jhapa district of eastern Nepal. Both of his sons are working abroad. “There’s no work here. They had no option but to leave,” says Miya, adding many young people from the village have had to leave due to a lack of opportunities in the area. Most people in the village of Paklawan are dependent on farming. But, that has also been hard over the course of the past few years. “We need to get fertilisers from India. When we do that, we get bullied by the border…

Inspector Sudarshan Panthee, 31, and Sub-Inspector Birendra Singh Johari, 40, last month did something not many police officers in Nepal have managed to do. Panthee and Johari received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award from the United Nations for their role in arresting notorious wildlife smuggler Kunjok Chhiring Lama in June 2020. “This is great for us and for these two,” says the CIB Chief, DIG Sahakul Bahadur Thapa, adding the UN independently awarding Nepali police is good for the body as it will inspire the younger generation of policemen. Kunjok had been on Interpol’s most-wanted list for a long time.…

On February 8, 2015, Nepal Police’s Metropolitan Crime Division arrested Hem Dorje Tamang from Rasuwa on the charge of stealing a motorbike and brought him to Kathmandu. But, as soon as he came to the capital, Tamang tried to escape, read the police report., The police’s preliminary report further states that Tamang also had possession of 5.89 grams of heroin. Following the report prepared by Inspector Bharat Thapa, Kathmandu District Court sentenced Tamang to five years in prison. But, three years later, judges Megh Nath Bhattarai and Shanta Singh Thapa of Patan High Court acquitted Tamang. In 2021, justice Tej…