Enforced Disappearances and Extrajudicial Killings
Security forces arrested Ram Chandra Lal Karna and Manoj Kumar Dutta on October 12, 2003, and beat Manoj severely. Both were taken to the Dhanusha DPO. Relatives went to several police stations and organizations but did not receive responses to their complaints. On June 7, 2005, the Human Rights Cell of the Nepal Army informed the NHRC that the two men had been killed in an “armed encounter”. In January 2008, the Dhanusha DPO informed Advocacy Forum that it would not act on any conflict-related FIRs.
Developments
There has been no investigation even after registering the FIRs.
On June 18, 2009, the relatives of the victims filed separate writ petitions at the Appellate Court, Janakpur.
On December 1, 2009, the Janakpur Appellate Court issued an order for the DPO, Dhanusha to register the FIR by filing the case under diary no. 10, as it had not been registered correctly. The court also ordered the DPO to promptly proceed with the investigations.
Despite this, Advocacy Forum has been unable to find any evidence of progress in the police files.
