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Rautahat Police begin investigation into in-custody death of Dalit youth

Rautahat police have begun investigation into the FIR filed against six policemen, including a superintendent of police, over the in-custody death of a Dalit youth a few weeks ago. The Niranjan Ram-Bijaya Ram Joint Struggle Committee had filed an FIR against then district police chief SP Rabiraj Khadka, Garuda Area Police Office DSP Gyan Kumar […]

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Agitating Dalit leaders picket Rautahat DPO to file FIR

Dalit leaders in Rautahat picketed the District Police Office (DPO) on Tuesday seeking to file an First Information Report (FIR) against police officials for their alleged involvement in the custodial death of Bijaya Ram Chamar. Bijaya Ram-Niranjan Ram-and-Sumintra Baitha Murder Joint Struggle Committee Rautahat gheraoed DPO and staged a sit-in for about one-and-a-half hours chanting

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Rautahat’s Superintendent of Police replaced as Dalits intensify agitation against killings

As the Niranjan Ram and Bijaya Ram Murder Joint Struggle Committee in Rautahat intensifies its agitation demanding fair investigation into the custodial death of a Dalit youth, Nepal Police headquarters has relieved incumbent police Chief Superintendent of Police Rabiraj Khadka of his responsibility. While SP Khadka has been recalled to the headquarters in Kathmandu, SP

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Dalit youth’s death in police custody incident of caste-based discrimination, says NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed its concern over the death of 19-year-old Bijaya Ram Chamar, of Garuda Municipality-8, Rautahat, at Birgunj-based National Medical College, while he was in police custody. The Dalit teenager was being treated at the hospital for renal disease and died on 26 August (Wednesday night). Chamar had been

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