Extrajudicial Killing
On September 28, 2003, officers of the Eastern Regional Army Headquarters in Itahari, and security personnel from Morang DPO arrested schoolteacher Data Ram Timsina. An eyewitness saw him being beaten and removed from the headquarters, and heard that he was to be killed. The Human Rights Cell of the NA later confirmed that Data Ram was “killed in a security operation at Kerabari VDC-5, in Morang District, on October 14, 2003.”
Developments
After both the DPO and CDO refused to register the FIR, the family in August 2007 appealed to the Biratnagar Appellate Court. The court quashed the petition, accepting arguments by the DPO and other authorities that incidents such as the killing of Data Ram will be addressed by the TRC.
The family subsequently filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Biratnagar Appellate Court decision.
A hearing of the case was scheduled on June 24, 2010 but the Supreme Court ran out of time. On October 28, 2010, the Supreme Court issued an order for the Morang DPO to register the FIR and to promptly proceed with the investigations.
