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Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has said the government would
bear the cost for treatment of those injured in the Kanchanpur incident
took place on Thursday.
The incident happened in course of demonstrations held by people of
Bhimdatta Municipality, demanding the arrest of guilty in the rape and
murder of a local 13-year-old girl. Many demonstrators were injured in
the incident.
The Home Minister today visited the Tribhuvan University Teaching
Hospital (TUTH) to take updates of the health condition of one of the
injured Arjun Bhandari. He was brought to the TUTH from Kanchanpur.
Tensions had gripped Bhimdattanagar, the district headquarters of
Kanchanpur, as the locals have continued their demonstration, since the
murder of Nirmala Panta a few weeks ago.
Earlier, the police had arrested a person with mental
illness on the charge of his involvement in the crime, but locals are
not convinced by the police move as they said the police framed an
innocent person to save the real criminal.
In response to their calls, the Home Ministry, on Thursday,
formed a five-member team under joint secretary at the Home Ministry,
Hari Prasad Mainali to probe the matter.
Tensions have gripped the Bhimdattanagar, the district
headquarters of Kanchanpur as the locals have continued their
demonstration, since the murder of Nirmala Panta after rape. Her body
was retrieved from a sugarcane field on July 27.
(RSS)
