The government has told the Home Ministry to investigate the murder of Krishna Prasad Adhikari after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sent an urgent letter directing it to follow-up on the recommendations made in 2008 regarding the case.
This comes five days after Home Minister Madhav Ghimire told the NHRC and Krishna Prasad’s parents on 7 August he could not dig up wartime cases, and instead offered to provide compensation and rehabilitation for the couple.
Earlier on Monday, the NHRC sent a second letter in a week and Khil Raj Regmi’s cabinet decided, five years after the Adhikaris had filed the case, to allow police to carry out investigations. But Noor Prasad Adhikari, Krishna’s elder brother, said they wouldn’t believe a word the government said until it took actions and put the guilty behind bars.
In 2004, Krishna was killed by Maoist cadres when he was going from Gorkha to his grandparents’ house in Chitwan and his parents have been going from one government office to the next for the last five years, petitioning for justice. They were on hunger strike earlier this year before they were forcibly admitted into a mental asylum.