Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the government is ready to form a high-level probe commission to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Prime Minister Dahal directed Home Minister Naarayan Kaji Shrestha to come up with a proposal to form a high-level probe commission under the headship of a former judge.
According to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Prime Minister Dahal instructed Home Minister Shrestha to bring the proposal in accordance with Section 3 (2) of the Commissions of Inquiry Act-1969.
A Cabinet meeting to be held on Monday will take a decision to form the commission after the Home Minister takes the proposal.
The Prime Minister’s Office said that the commission will start working from tomorrow itself.
Earlier this morning, the Nepali Congress had demanded the formation of a high-level probe commission to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Making public the decisions of the Central Committee meeting held for three days at the party office in Sanepa, party Publicity Department Chief Min Bishwokarma said that the party has demanded the formation of a high-level judicial probe committee.
Sujan Raut of Dailekh and Birendra Shah of Achham had died when the Korean Language test candidates clashed with police personnel at Balkumari in Lalitpur.
Raut and Shah, who was critically injured in the police firing, breathed their last during the course of treatment at the Kist and Patan Hospitals.
Police opened fire on protesters, who were not allowed to take part in the Korean language test for employment in South Korea, after they torched the vehicle of Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala.
