House Orders Govt To Act Against RCCC Officials

The meeting of the House of Representatives today unanimously passed a proposal to form a probe team to investigate into the excesses done by the now illegal Royal Commission for Corruption Control and take action against its officials.Finance Minister Dr Ramsaran Mahat assured the House that the government was ready to take action against the now disbanded RCCC officials.Similarly, the House ordered the government to probe into the murder of UML parlimentarian Hem Narayan Yadav and take action against the culprits.

Mainwhile Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula said Friday that the government has already moved towards taking action against the culprits of the pro-democratic movement in the country.

The minister made the remarks after more than one dozen Members of Parliament (MP) drew the attention of the House on the lacklustre response of the government on taking necessary action on those who used excessive force to suppress the peaceful mass movement.

The House has already given mandate to the government to initiate necessary action against the “culprits.”

Home Minister Sitaula also said that the HoR would be notified very soon about the government proceedings.

In another news The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the government to take action against Madhav Bahadur Thapa, Senior Superintendent of the Armed Police Force (APF), for giving ordering the security forces to use excessive force on pro-democracy demonstrators in Gongabu, Kathmandu, on April 11.

The NHRC today wrote to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers recommending for stern action SSP Thapa of the Valley APF, who was the commanding officer during the Gongabu incident, ordered his men to shoot at the protesters without issuing warnings. A press release issued by the commission said that investigation into the incident established that use of excessive force on the demonstrators was in violation of the section 6(1) of Local Administration Act 2028 B.S.

The NHRC statement said the security officials under Thapa’s command provoked the agitators by falsely claiming that the firing from inside the APF AIG Rup Sagar Moktan at Gongabu was by the Maoists and that the security commanders failed to take under control the security person who opened fire at the demonstrations.

SSP Thapa failed to pay summon at the NHRC office but he appeared only after the commission sent a second letter to the APF headquarters to send him for inquiry, the statement said.

Citing Thapa’s confession that excessive force was used on the demonstrators and that he could not properly observe his duty, the commission recommended stern action against him as per the Armed Police Force Act-2048 B.S. The commission also asked the government to identify the security person who opened fire from inside AIG Moktan’s residence.