Himalayan News Service

Pokhara, July 9:

The whereabouts of Bheshnath Upadhaya (Gautam) who was “abducted” from Kaski district jail on Wednesday night and who turned up mysteriously at the Bagar ward police office the next day, are yet to be known, INSEC activists have quoted security officials of Myagdi as saying. According to security officials, Upadhaya was never brought to Myagdi district.

Quoting Maygdi CDO Gyan Prasad Bhattarai, INSEC representative for Myagdi, Ghanshyam Khadka, told this daily that no one named Bheshnath Upadhaya was brought to the district till today.

“On behalf of INSEC, when we consulted CDO Bhattarai and incharge of the Maygdi district police office, inspector Dumber Singh Thapa, they flatly denied that Upadhya was ever brought here,” said Khadka.

His elder brother Moti Prasad Gautam alleged that despite his frantic efforts to meet CDO Bhattarai and inspector Thapa yesterday, the two refused to see him.

His wife Uma Kumari has accused local authorities of Pokhara of abducting her husband from the Bagar ward police office.