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The Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has urged the major political parties not to disrupt the investigation into the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The INSEC’s demand comes at a time when there is a widespread suspicion that the major political parties will try to sabotage the investigation into the fake Bhutanese refugee case. A mandatory in-depth and impartial investigation is required to ensure Nepal’s standing in the international community. The common people, civil society, and the Parliament, which is a sovereign representation of citizens, should play an active role to maintain accountability, during the existing distrust in the commitment of the government and national agencies against corruption, reads a statement issued by the INSEC. “Political parties will be accountable for the impending consequences that Nepal will face, at the national and international level, if this fraudulent crime, conducted in the cohort of national apparatus, including legislators and high-ranking political figures, is not investigated minutely, ensuring prosecution to everyone involved in the crime,” the statement reads. The INSEC praised the Nepali Police and state bodies within the jurisdiction for carrying out investigation into the case.

Police have arrested three persons with a rhino horn from Steel Tower in Lalitpur Metropolitan city-4 of Lalitpur district. The arrestees have been identified as Roshan Ghimire (28) and Yuwaraj Ghimire (24) of Bhawanipur of Rapti Municipality-5 in Chitwan district and currently residing at Ekantakuna and Birendra Tamang (28) of Rorang Rural Municipality-2 in Dhading district and currently residing at Naya Bazar, Kathmandu. Acting on a tip-off, the trio were held with 297 milligrams of the horn, according to the Police Headquarters, Naxal. They have been sent to the Division Forest Office at Godawari in Lalitpur for further investigation, police said.

Two children died after being crushed by a tractor at Samewa in Bharapa of Hilihang Rural Municipality-7, Panchthar on Wednesday. Police identified the deceased as Pujana Subedi (13) and Ganga Subedi (11), daughters of Kamal Subedi. Police said that the Subedi duo, who were traveling in the tractor (Me 1 Ta 2961), died after they accidentally fell down to be crushed by the rear wheel of the same vehicle. DSP Hari Khatiwada of the District Police Office, Panchthar said that the tractor turned turtle after the driver tried to escape from the incident site. It has been learnt that 11 students were traveling in the tractor. Police said that the driver and the assistant driver of the tractor are at large. Pujana was an eighth grader and Ganga fourth grader at the Bhawani Secondary School in Hihihang.  

A person died and four others were injured when a bus and a motorbike collided with each other at Jarankhu in Tarkeshwor on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Jogendra Prasad Gupta. Incapacitated in the incident, he breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Medicity Hospital, Traffic police spokesperson Rajendra Prasad Bhatta said. Police said that they are looking into the case.