Durga Prasai, a supporter of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s arrest and trial in connection with various corruption cases, was taken into custody by the Nepal Police on Sunday using the internet legislation.
In defiance of the police’s ten-day demand, the Kathmandu district court ordered Prasai to three days of judicial prison. In a related event, Chhabi Lal Joshi, a former deputy inspector general of police who had taken a top executive position in a media company, was taken into custody by the police. The corporation was discovered by a parliamentary inquiry to have engaged in the illicit acquisition and misappropriation of loans from cooperative entities.
Following Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak’s directive for the police to act on the report of the parliamentary committee, the arrests happened virtually immediately.
Along with 53 other people who were linked to cooperative fraud in the parliamentary committee report, Rabi Lamichhane, a former deputy prime minister and leader of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party, which has 21 members and is the fourth-largest party in Parliament, is also expected to be taken into custody.
Prasai, who has formed a ‘save culture and nationalism mega campaign’, was arrested by the police in the afternoon from his residence in Bhaktapur. “I will fight Oli till I have a drop of blood circulating,” he said.
For the past two years, Prasai, a former Maoist guerilla who later joined Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, has been in charge of large-scale demonstrations against Oli. He wants to have Oli arrested and put on trial, calling him the “most corrupt” leader in the nation.
The day following Prime Minister Oli’s departure from the nation to head the Nepali mission at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Lamichhane was set to be arrested and Prasai was placed under detention, developments that could have far-reaching political implications.
Leading party figures, including Vice President Swarnim Wagle, are scheduled to depart for China for a two-week official visit as Lamichhane waits to be arrested. Out of the parliamentary committee that looked into the cooperative issue, 55 individuals were found to have committed fraud and misused the deposits of the general public.
In addition to Lamichhane, Dhan Raj Gurung, a significant member of the ruling coalition and a former law minister and current legislator, has also been named by the police. The authorities are still silent on whether Gurung will suffer the same fate as Rabi.
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