Try guilty army men in civil Court: Rights body

The Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee has called on the authorities concerned to suspend Nepal Army’s Bhairabnath Battalion chief Rajendra Jung Khatri, Captain Robin Bikram Rana and others involved in torturing police personnel and try them in civil court.
Releasing its finding report in the capital Thursday, the committee also demanded adequate compensation for the three police victims.

The report said that the incident was the result of the high-handedness and indiscipline exhibited by NA’s captain Rana and his colleagues at the Bhairabnath Battalion.

The committee’s investigation found that Captain Rana fled the scene after a squabble with police on the night of July 28 on the matter of parking a car in Thamel, while police took Rana’s friend Bikendra Bista to Durbar Marg police station.

Rana returned with 40 armed Nepal Army personnel, surrounded the police station and forcefully took away police inspector Ram Bahadur KC, ASI Dhamendra Rai and police personnel Dil Bahadur Tamang to Bhairabnath battalion and tortured them, the report said.

The report quoted major of the Battalion Santosh Pandey as saying that they have not received a formal letter on the suspension of the main perpetrator of the incident Captain Robin Bikram Rana, according to reports