Tuesday’s Naya Patrika had a story about the police officer involved in Jamim Shah’s murder. We missed the news in The Brief yesterday, but would like to include it here because the reporter who wrote the story is getting death threats. From Naya Patrika:
Nepal Police officer Prakash Chhetri has said that he helped the killer of Jamim Shah because he was being taken to discos and bars, and shown a good time.
The mastermind of Shah’s murder was an Indian mafia don named Babbu who is currently serving a sentence in Indian jail for his involvement in over 40 murder and kidnapping cases. Chhetri was arrested for helping Deepak Shahi who arrived in Nepal with instructions from Babbu.
Chhetri had met Babbu in India about 5 years ago. When Babbu came to Nepal to plan the murder of Shah, he took Chhetri to discos, dance bars and restaurants in Thamel. “I enjoyed myself a lot, but I ended up in custody .”
Major national newspapers published a special editorial on Wednesday condemning the threat to Naya Patrika reporter and the killing of Janakpur Today’s Arun Sinhaniya. The editorial says:
We, as editors, express deep anguish and strongly condemn the killing of Arun Kumar Sinhaniya, the Chairman of Janakpur Today media institution. The killing, on the one hand, shows the fearsome form of cowardice and criminality, and on the other, the total absence of government.
The Federation of Nepali Chambers of Commerce has also decried the lawlessness and demanded that the government beef up security. The Kathmandu Post reports:
The business community has given one month to the government to ensure security and environment for business. A delegation of Federation of Nepali Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) and Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) asked Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Tuesday to give himself a deadline for improving the security situation.
“We’ve given one month to the prime minister to improve the security situation,” said FNCCI vice president Bhaskar Raj Karnikar. “If the government fails to act, we’ll hand over the keys of our businesses to it.”
While denying the FNCCI’s request to allow their security guards to bear arms, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said the lawlessness has prevailed because the police do not have enough guns.
Until they are given more guns, we should all be prepared for random body searches as we saw on the streets of Kathmandu on Wednesday.
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If it was OK for the Maoists to use violence to achieve their objectives why is it not acceptable for these people to use violence to achieve their objectives?
What more can you expect from a system where there’s no “Rule of Law”? This is just a tip of an iceberg. Jamim’s murder has clearly stated that the international Mafias and Dons are beginning to expand their feathers in the country esp. around the valley. Now, murders, extortion, arson, kidnapping, abduction will keep on happening. Just kidnap someone to launder money isn’t a new method in India as seen on Indian movies. Now, this disease is being transferred to Nepal. There’s a proverb, “An Empty Mind is a house of Evil”.Highly unemployed(around 40 percent) have learned a new way to make money.
Cannot sympathize with the journalists.
They were largely responsible to bring this country to this tragic condition.
Change they had wanted, now change they have got.
Why cry for the bygone land of peace.?
Do not be regressive, enjoy your progressive achievements. This is New Nepal.
When ordinary people are killed it is revolution. When journalists are killed it is murder.