The CPN-UML on Wednesday suspended its Secretary Top Bahadur Rayamjahi after he was dragged into the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. Issuing a statement this afternoon, party General Secretary Shankar Pokharel said that the party suspended Rayamajhi to help in the investigation. “A Central Secretariat meeting of the party held on Tuesday took the issue seriously and directed Rayamajhi to present himself before the concerned authority at the earliest to help the investigation,” read the statement. “Keeping in mind the decision of the Central Secretariat, the party suspended Rayamajhi from the post until the police took the investigation to a logical conclusion.”

UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, however, has been expressing his dissatisfaction over the arrest warrant issued against Rayamajhi.

Rayamajhi has been absconding since May 4 after the Kathmandu District Court issued an arrest warrant against him for his alleged involvement in helping the racketeers to make fake documents to send Nepalis to the United States in the guise of Bhutanese refugees.