Actress Karki's suicide case takes new turn

By A Staff Reporter

KATHMANDU, Oct. 20: The suicide of film actress Shrisha Karki is taking new twist and turn with the name of film producer Sunita Khadka being linked to the case.

The Nepal Film Producers' Association (NFPA) today handed over Khadka to the District Police Office at Hanumandhoka.

"We handed over producer Khadka to the police after she approached us this morning so that it would become easier for the authorities to look into Shrisha's suicide case," general secretary of NFPA Ashok Sharma told The Rising Nepal.

Quoting Sunita Khadka as saying, Sharma also disclosed that Khadka knew the house at Bishalnagar where Shrisha's nude photo was taken.

A cine artiste requesting anonymity told The Rising Nepal that Khadka and an unnamed police inspector are said to have enticed Shrisha to go to bed with an ex-minister. But after Shrisha flatly refused the proposal Khadka and the police inspector forcibly took her to the house at Bishalnagar and forced her to pose nude. But the relation between film producer Khadka and Shrestha is still not clear.

It is suspected that Kishore Shrestha, the Jan Aastha editor, somehow got hold of the photographs and used them to blackmail Shrisha. A nude photograph of Karki along with a slanderous report had appeared on the October 9 issue of tabloid. Five days later, one day before the Bijaya Dashami, the 24-year-old actress Karki committed suicide by hanging in her room at Maijubahal.

Superintendent of Police Tapendra Hamal said that they were investigating on the alleged involvement of a police inspector in blackmailing of Shrisha with her nude photo.

The NFPA has also decided to file a murder charge case against editor Shrestha. "We will file a case against editor Shrestha tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Office of the Superintendent of Police," Krishna Malla, President of NFPA and noted film actor, said.

Police are still searching for the absconding Kishore Shrestha, editor of Jan Aastha, a vernacular tabloid, whose publication of the nude photo, is blamed for the actress's suicide. The police are also looking for two other reporters of the tabloid Biswomani Subedi and Yadav Prasad Pandey, who, too, are gone hiding, said DSP Kedar Singh Bhandari.

Nepalese in Riyadh support sports in Chitwan

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RATNANAGAR (Chitwan), Oct. 20: People from Chitwan who are working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have contributed to the construction of the district sports development committee building back home.
According to convenor of the building construction committee Badri Timilsina, the 'Chitwan Family Committee' in Riyadh has sent Rs. 70,000 so far.

The committee is to meet the total construction cost of Rs. 300,000 for the two room structure which is expected to be completed within the current fiscal year.

More than 250 people from Chitwan are currently working in Riyadh.

The foundation stone for the building was laid by National Assembly member Rishi Babu Pariyar recently.

23 injured in Mahottari bus accident

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MAHOTTARI, Oct. 20: Nine persons sustained serious injuries and 14 others minor injuries in a head-on collision between Bhittamod-bound passenger bus (Ja. 1. Kha. 248) from Janakpur and Janakpur-bound bus (Ja. 1 Kha. 18) from Bhittamod.

The collision took place near Khairachok near Jaleshwar Municipality.

One of the seriously injured has been sent to Dharan for treatment and eight others are undergoing treatment at the Janakur Zonal Hospital, it is learnt from the District Police Office, Mahottari.
Others sustaining minor injury have left for home after receiving treatment at the Jaleshwar Hospital.
The mishap occurred because both the buses were moving in excessively high speed. The drivers of both the buses are at large.

Floral tributes paid to police inspector

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KATHMANDU, Oct. 20: The body of police Inspector Kamal Raj Joshi, who attained martyrdom when trapped in underground explosion triggered by the terrorists at Auri of Baliya VDC in Kailali district the other day, was cremated at the Pashupati Aryaghat today.

A contingent of the Nepal Police offered salute, mourning salute and last post in honour of late Joshi.
Earlier, Home Minister Dharma Bahadur Thapa and Inspector General of Police Pradip Shumsher JB Rana went to the Birendra Police Hospital and offered bouquets and garlands on the mortal remains of Inspector Joshi.

On the occasion, Additional Inspectors General of Police Ananta Ram Bhattarai and Govinda Prasad Thapa, former home minister Govinda Raj Joshi, Deputy Inspectors General, other high ranking police officers and the kith and kin of the deceased offered floral and emotional tributes to late Joshi.

Myanmar Bhikshus to visit Nepal

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KATHMANDU, Oct. 20: Tripitakdhar Aggamahapandit Bhikshu Sumangalalkar Mahasthavir of Myanmar is scheduled to visit Nepal from October 20 to 30 at the invitation of Bhikshu Gyanpurnik Mahasthavir of Bishwa Shanti Vihar.

During his sojourn in Nepal, he will give discourses at Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Nhaktapur and visit Lumbini, the Birthplace of Lord Buddha, it was disclosed at a press conference organised by the Vihar here today. Bhikshu Sumangalalkar is one of the six Tripitakadhars of Myanmar who can recite Buddhabachan Tripitak of about one thousand pages by heart. Tripitak refers to Suttapitak, Binayapitak and Abhirdhammapitak.

Medical Council exams begin

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KATHMANDU, Oct. 20: The Nepal Medical Council yesterday started the second medical registration certificate examinations.

Altogether 264 persons are appearing in the examinations including 43 in dental and 22l in medical.
According to registrar at the Medical Council Dr. Shankar Pratap Singh, the examinations will contribute to standards in medicine.

Those who pass the examinations, which is held only for physicians who are Nepali nationals, can register with the Medical Council on a temporary basis.