Chari in 5-day police custody
KATHMANDU, JUL 29 -
The Kathmandu District Court on Sunday remanded notorious gangster Dinesh Adhikari, aka Chari , in five-day police custody.
Adhikari was arrested on Saturday by the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range (MPR), Hanumandhoka, after it was revealed that a pistol used by gangster Radhe Bhandari to shoot at Chari on July 6 actually belonged to him. Adhikari is said to have gifted the weapon to Bhandari when the latter used to work for him around one year ago.
Considered a close aide to CPN-UML leader KP Oli, Adhikari is also a Dhading district member of the UML. He was attacked by the Bhandari-gang while driving back to Kathmandu from his home district in Dhading. The bullet had gone past Chari ’s right arm, leaving him injured. Bhandari was arrested a day after the shootout, while a case against him is under way in the court. Apart from the case of illegal possession of the weapon used in the Naikap shootout, one Rajendra Lama of the Bhandari gang, who was injured in the July 6 assault after striking against Chari ’s car, has also filed a separate case related to road accident against Adhikari. “We are in the process of interrogating Chari ,” DSP Ramesh Basnet of the MPR said. “So far, he has refused to admit that the weapon originally belonged to him.”
Meanwhile, protesting Chari ’s arrest, UML cadres called a strike in Dhading district on Sunday. Although schools and colleges remained shut and traffic came to a grinding halt in the morning, locals defied the strike in the afternoon. UML cadres also blocked traffic at the Galchhi section of Prithivi Highway for two hours in the afternoon.
“We are receiving political pressure to release Chari ,” a police official at the MPR said, requesting anonymity. “However, as we are under the court’s order to hold him and conduct investigations, the pressure won’t create much problems.”
UML cadres also staged a sit-in at the Hanumandhoka police station on Saturday. “Any forms of protests will not work here,” said SSP Subodh Ghimire, the MPR chief.
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