Kathmandu, December 12
The caretaker government has brought an ordinance to release Resham Chaudhary, who is serving life imprisonment for his involvement in the Tikapur incident.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Sunday has decided to bring an ordinance to amend Section 116 of the National Civil Procedure 2017. This will provide amnesty to anyone convicted of evil crimes.
“We have not said amnesty but we want to remove his name from the negative list. We’re still working on a language,” a minister told Onlinekhabar.
Section 116 of the National Civil (Code) Act 2017 states that cases of people who were involved in killing people in an inhumane manner could not be pardoned. It was due to this legal provision that the government has not been able to release the likes of Chaudhary and other leaders of splinter groups like the Netra Bikram Chand-led Nepal Communist Party.
“This feels like a game Sher Bahadur Deuba and others are playing to form a government,” says a source close to the ruling alliance.
The parties in the ruling coalition are trying to get the majority in the House of Representatives to form a new government. For that, they will need help from Chaudhary’s Nagarik Unmukti Party.
The top leaders of the ruling party personally visited Resham Chaudhary in Dillibazar jail after the election. But the party has time and again made it clear that it will only support the government if their leader Resham Chaudhary is released from prison and the case against him is withdrawn.
A minister said that the government is trying to address the condition of the Nagarik Unmukti Party by deciding to bring an ordinance on Sunday.
“If the ordinance is issued, the Resham will be released. But the court should also accept it, I don’t know whether the court’s consent has been taken or not,” said the minister.
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