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Jamim murder: Cases filed in KDC against five

Jamim murder: Cases filed in KDC against five

By Himalayan News Service

KATHMANDU: A government prosecutor today lodged two separate ‘attempt to murder’ cases in the Kathmandu District Court against five co-accused in the Jamim Shah murder case. The prosecuter has demanded up to 15 years jail term as per No 15 and 16 of Punishment Chapter of Muluki Ain, 1963, for Police Sub Inspector Prakash Chhetri, Laxman Dhamala, Kishor Khadka, former deputy superintendent of police Jagadish Chand and Shreekrishna Paudel. The former police officer Chand and Poudel are at large. The Kathmandu District Attorney’s Office, however, failed to identify the prime accused, who shot Shah dead in broad daylight on February 7 in Lazimpat. As the prime suspect remains unidentified yet, the different charge-sheets filed by the attorney have not been able to demand life sentences on the accused. The public prosecutor has charged all the five with assisting Shah’s murder. The police produced Chhetri, Dhamala and Khadka in the KDC and told the court that two other accused are absconding. The prosecutor claimed that Dipak Shahi and Om Prakash Shreevastav, alias Babloo, hatched the plot to kill Shah. He accused Babloo of hatching the plot and said that since he is an Indian national and is ‘absconding’, he will be produced in the court if arrested as a co-accused. Babloo is serving a life sentence in the Bareilly Jail in Uttar Pradesh state in India. The prosecutor also accused Chand and Paudel of helping to ‘erase evidence,’ while Chhetri, Khadka and Dhamala assisted the shooter in fleeing. He, however, did not prosecute Dilip Kumar Thapa, Birendra Kumar Godi Mandal and Roshan Kumar Pandey fllowing pressure from automobile workers. The police have accused them of supplying the mobile SIM card and the motorcycle to the killers. Stating that there wasn’t sufficient evidence against them, the Kathmandu District Government Attorney Badri Oli did not make them defendants in the charge sheets.