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Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba held a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday. Deuba had reached Baluwatar to meet Prime Minister Dahal prior to the party’s office bearers meeting. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka and Minister for Foreign Affairs NP Saud were present in the meeting. It has been learnt that they discussed the issue of fake Bhutanese refugee scam in the meeting. The office bearers meeting was called after Congress leader and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand was arrested in connection with the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The office bearers meeting was also held on Wednesday. The meeting discussed whether to suspend central member Khanda from the party’s post or not. But the meeting ended without making a decision. The meeting to be held today will take the decision on the same issue. Former office bearers are also called to attend the meeting today.  

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal expressed his condolences on the demise of the second people's movement victim Mukesh Kayastha. He wished for eternal peace to the departed soul and expressed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family through a social networking site. Kayastha passed away on Wednesday night. He was 32. He could not walk and talk, and was confined to his home ever since he was injured in the movement. Following complications in his health, he was admitted to Banepa-based Scheer Memorial Hospital, where he breathed his last, said Hira Sharma, Chairperson of the Mukesh Foundation. Mukesh got injured during the second People's Movement at Teendobato, Kavre on April 9, 2006. He was shot by a bullet in his left temple. The kayasthas' only son Mukesh from Banepa Municipality-8 in Kavrepalanchok district was 15 years old when he was injured. He was an eighth grader at Bidhya Sagar School in Banepa. In 2078 BS, the Warriors, Achieves and Respect Committee of Democracy led by then the Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali honoured him as a 'Warrior of Democracy' and appreciated his contribution to the people's movement. He was also known as the 'Living Martyr'. The government waived loans of Rs 700,000 taken by his family. It had also been providing Rs 15,000 per month for his medication, and had managed a health worker for his care. He has completely stopped talking since the past one year. He was being fed through tube feeding. The Kayastha family did not lose their hopes on him. "Mukesh's right hand and both legs were immobile since he fell sick. We had a hope that he could be cured," said Mukesh's father Krishna Man. Lately, Dr Gopal Raman, who works at the Mediciti Hospital, was attending to him. Four youths from Kavrepalanchok were killed in the movement and 40 others were injured.  

The Kathmandu District Court on Wednesday ordered the police to keep former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand in custody for four days and proceed with their investigation. Laxman Upadhyay Ghimire, spokesperson at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, said that Khand has been remanded in police custody for four days. The former home minister was apprehended from his residence in Maijubahal, Chabahil on Wednesday in connection with the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The District Police Range, Kathmandu grilled Khand for five hours.  

Nepali Congress lawmaker Arju Deuba filed a complaint with the Cyber Bureau to investigate the fake audio. She lodged the complaint demanding that the Bureau investigate the fake audio that linked her name to the fake Bhutanese refugee scam and take action against the culprits. Deuba claimed in the complaint that the audio was made public through social media to assassinate her character. Saying that the audio was recorded in a premeditated manner, she demanded that the guilty be booked at the earliest.