Rautahat, November 8

Prosecutors have finished their arguments during the trial hearing in the case of Nepali Congress’s suspended lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam. Following the completion of statement-recording, the hearing had started yesterday.

Alam is being sued under three charges of murder, attempted murder and causing explosion.

Prosecutors, including Parsa District Attorney Rudra Prasad Panthi and Deputy Attorney Ram Prasad Panthi, argued in the case. Senior advocates Yubraj Sangraula, Kumar Khatiwada and Dinesh Tripathi, advocates Govind Sharma Bandi, Om Prakash Aryal, Ashikram Karki, Manish Kumar Shrestha and Pushparaj Poudel argued in the case on behalf of the victim families.

Most of those, who have argued in the case so far, have sought maximum punishment to all the persons involved in the incident and demanded that they be kept in judicial custody until the final verdict. They also demanded that the then home minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula and then Rautahat Chief District Officer Durga Bhandari also be brought into the ambit of investigation, for their role in covering up the gory incident.

Police have sought help of the headquarters after they couldn’t record the statement of then APF Rautahat SP Ramkrishna Lama. As per sources, Lama is now in Hong Kong for treatment. Then Rautahat police chief SP Laxman Neupane, however, was murdered in the Tikapur incident later.

As the court time was over with the prosecutors presenting their case, the hearing will continue from 11:00am on Sunday.

Alam, an elected lawmaker, was held over the charge of burning to death in a brick kiln the injured of a bomb blast in Rajpur of Rautahat some 12 years ago.