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Kathmandu Monday June 11, 2001 Jestha 29, 2058.
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Probe body term extended
Post Report
KATHMANDU, June 10 - The tenure of the high level committee
formed to investigate the Royal carnage of June 1 has been extended by four days, a
statement issued today by the Principal Secretariat of His Majesty the King stated. The
committee’s report, originally due today, is now expected on Thursday.
Chief Justice Keshab Prasad Upadhyay, who heads the probe
committee, reportedly made a submission to the government seeking extension of the
deadline of the committee today. His Majesty the King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
granted the extension by four days after the government recommended Upadhyay’s
submission.
Upadhyay, in the submission stated that the committee had
almost finished with the inquiry but awaited forensic reports and needed some more time to
write the final report.
"The Committee needed some more time as the final
reports of the forensic tests of the materials from the carnage site has not been
received," said a high level government source.
Various objects and weapons from the carnage site inside the
Narayanhiti Royal Palace have been sent to a lab in Khumaltar for forensic tests. The
deadline of the committee now ends on June 14, Thursday.
The two members of the committee Chief Justice Upadhyay and
Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Taranath Ranabhat have also reportedly sought the
eyewitness account of His Majesty the Queen Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah from the Birendra
Army Hospital in Chhauni.
His Majesty the Queen is admitted to the Army Hospital since
June 1 after sustaining injuries in the same incident that took the lives of 10 royalties
and royal relatives including Late King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya.
The probe committee initially had three members including the
leader of the main opposition Madhav Kumar Nepal who was nominated by King Gyanendra Bir
Bikram Shah Dev on June 4, Monday. But the committee was crippled after the resignation of
Nepal. Instead of Tuesday, as initially commanded, the committee started its work only
from June 8, Friday.
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