Army killed MP Yadav, says Parliamentary Committee

The Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Friday has implicated an army colonel in the murder of MP Hem Narayan Yadav.A report submitted to Parliament by the committee has concluded that Colonel Babu Krishna Karki of Indradhwoj Battallion was involved in the killing of MP Yadav.Yadav represented constituency no 4 of Siraha district.The committee also recommended the government to immediately suspend the colonel, arrest him and charge him with murder. The committee also recommended appropriate action against one Jay Prakash Upadhyaya, a fellow villager of MP Yadav, accusing him of playing a role of an informer in Yadav’s murder. MP Yadav, who was kidnapped from Kashaha along the Mahendra Highway on February 2, 2004 while on his way to participate in a party meeting, was found dead the next day on the banks of the Kamala River in Dhanusha district.

Stating that Colonel Karki was still in the army, army spokesperson Ananta Bahadur Thebe said that if he was proven guilty, action will be taken against him. The then government had suspected the Maoists to have been involved in MP Yadav's killing, however, when the Maoists did not take responsibility for the murder, doubts then shifted towards the army.After the reinstatement of Parliament, an investigation committee was formed to probe into the case under the chairmanship of MP Anand Prasad Dhungana.The committee also recommended the government to compensate the family of the deceased MP and to provide assistance to his children in their studies.The Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Friday has implicated an army colonel in the murder of MP Hem Narayan Yadav.

A report submitted to Parliament by the committee has concluded that Colonel Babu Krishna Karki of Indradhwoj Battallion was involved in the killing of MP Yadav.Yadav represented constituency no 4 of Siraha district.The committee also recommended the government to immediately suspend the colonel, arrest him and charge him with murder. The committee also recommended appropriate action against one Jay Prakash Upadhyaya, a fellow villager of MP Yadav, accusing him of playing a role of an informer in Yadav’s murder. MP Yadav, who was kidnapped from Kashaha along the Mahendra Highway on February 2, 2004 while on his way to participate in a party meeting, was found dead the next day on the banks of the Kamala River in Dhanusha district.Stating that Colonel Karki was still in the army, army spokesperson Ananta Bahadur Thebe said that if he was proven guilty, action will be taken against him. The then government had suspected the Maoists to have been involved in MP Yadav's killing, however, when the Maoists did not take responsibility for the murder, doubts then shifted towards the army.

After the reinstatement of Parliament, an investigation committee was formed to probe into the case under the chairmanship of MP Anand Prasad Dhungana.The committee also recommended the government to compensate the family of the deceased MP and to provide assistance to his children in their studies.