Kathmandu: The District Court, Kathmandu has given permission to the police to keep medical entrepreneur Durga Prasain in detention for 12 days to investigate his involvement in the Tinkune violence orchestrated on March 28.
The Nepal Police had taken under control Prasain from Bhadrapur, Jhapa on Friday morning and brought to Kathmandu to forward investigation. He was presented before the District Court, Kathmandu where judge Shisir Raj Dhakal decided for 12 days’ detention to him, according to information officer Dipak Kumar Shrestha.
Prasain was held along with his security aide Dipak Khadka. He will also be in detention together.
The supporters of ex-king, including Prasain, had conducted a violent demonstration prompting the government to invoke the law on crime against State and organized crime. Prasain is held in this connection.
Earlier, on the same charge, leaders of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rabindra Mishra and Dr Dhawal Shamser Rana, were detained for the investigation.
Source: RSS