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NHRC to open regional office in Dhangadhi

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said it is going to establish its regional office in Dhangadhi, the far-western regional headquarters.

The regional office is being set up as part of the commission’s plan to extend its access to as many parts of the country as possible, the NHRC said Tuesday. This will be the fourth NHRC regional office. Its regional offices have already been established in Nepalganj, Biratnagar and Pokhara.

Similarly, the rights watchdog has also decided to open contact offices in three zones -Jumla district of Karnali zone, Rolpa of Rapti zone and Khotang district, Sagarmatha zone.

Meanwhile, NHRC members today visited the Morang District Police Office (DPO) to take stock of the condition of Siraha local development officer (LDO), Keshab Prasad Bimali, who is being detained there for the last 9 days.

On July 3, eastern regional administrator Jagdish Khadka and zonal administrator Ram Kumar Subba had beaten up Bimali at his office premises and then detained him. His whereabouts remained unknown until Tuesday’s newspapers revealed that he had been kept at the DPO cell.

Commission members Sudeep Pathak and Gokul Pokhrel met Bimali at custody this morning. The investigation was launched following complaints that the administrators-duo brutally assaulted the LDO, locked him inside the toilet and detained him incommunicado for days, the NHRC said.

Reports had said the administrators who were at the Siraha District Development Committee office for inspection attacked the LDO on a minor pretext that he failed to keep the official guesthouse clean. nepalnewscom mbk/by July 12 05