Kathmandu, Nepal: The Kathmandu District Court (KDC) has ordered 12 years and six months jail term to the CPN Maoist Centre leader Bal Krishna Dhungel.
Following the KDC order, Dhungel has been sent to Dillibazar-based prison. Nepal police had presented murder convict Dhungel at the KDC after his arrest.
Earlier on Tuesday, Police had nabbed the ‘absconding’ murder convict Dhungel from his rented room in Satdobato of Lalitpur district.
The Supreme Court (SC) the apex court of the country had already convicted him in the murder case of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha, a resident of his home district, Okhaldhunga on January 3, 2010 upholding the Okhaldhunga District Court verdict against him.
The SC had ordered Dhungel for life imprisonment with property seizure. But he was not arrested in the pretext of failing to map out him even though he had spent years in and around the Singdurbar, as member of the parliament.
As he had already served eight years jail term during the trial of the case, he has to spend 12 years five months and 22 days in the jail.
Dhungel was found main culprit on the murder case of Shrestha. He was murdered on June 24, 1998, at Tarkerabari of Okhaldhunga.
The CPN Maoist had been attempting to save Dhungel from the charge. Baburam Bhattarai-led government had decided to pardon Dhungel on November 8, 2011. But the SC denied the government’s decision following the writ of certiorari at the apex court on November 10, 2011 by the victim’s sister Sabitri Shrestha.
