Kathmandu. His mother Ravia Khan has demanded that the culprits involved in the murder of Arabi Khan of Nepalganj-21 Birta in Banke be prosecuted.
While holding a press conference at Samvad Double in Kathmandu on Saturday, she alleged that even after reporting the murder, the police refused to register the case with the intention of acquitting the accused.
Mother Ravia says that even after two and a half years of her son's murder, it is sad that the police did not file a complaint when they reached the district police office in Banke with a complaint to file a case against Meraj Khan, who is believed to be involved in the incident. She said that Meraj Khan's shirt was found covered in blood at the scene of the incident and the police denied it claiming that there was no evidence when they lodged a complaint on that basis.
According to Ravia, the involvement of Apjal Pathan in the incident was seen and the police came back saying that they cannot file a complaint until he comes in contact. When Apjal was arrested and brought back from India after two years, the police demanded a complaint only in his name. She said that concrete evidence was demanded when they tried to lodge a complaint in the name of Meraj.
Fazlur Rahman, the uncle of the deceased, said that Arabi was killed in a very inhumane and gruesome manner and demanded that the truth be investigated and the guilty be punished to the extent possible. Rahman said that the police did not file a complaint in the name of Meraj regarding the brutal murder, which raised serious suspicions against the police.
He informed that two years after the incident in Chait, 2080, the police forced him to file a complaint in the name of Apjal and then brought him to court. He expressed that even though the Banke District Court sent him to remand for investigation, the Nepalgunj Bench of the High Court Tulsipur ordered him to be released on bail, saying that there was no concrete evidence.
He said that although the previous government did not give justice, he came to Kathmandu in the hope that the current government would give justice.
