23 August 2012. Responding to writ petition filed by Radha Devi Devkota, Appellate Court Nepalganj on 15 August 2012 has issued a show cause order against the police. The court has asked the respondent police offices to provide written reply within 15 days.
Radha Devi Devkota had filed a writ petition on 14 August requesting necessary orders including mandamus to the police to register the First Information Report of the extra-judicial execution of her son Kranti Devkota during conflict. Kranti was murdered by soldiers from Chisapani Barracks in 2001. He was not carrying any arms and he had surrendered to the soldiers pleading for his life. Despite this, the soldiers shot him to death. Radha Devi tried to lodge an FIR at the Area Police Office, Kohalpur and later at District Police Office, Banke against guilty soldiers including the then Major Ajit Thapa and Captain Ramesh Swar but the police refused to register it. She then had to knock at the doors of the court for justice.
Advocacy Forum has provided legal assistance to the victim in preparing the FIR and the writ petition.
