Fake Bhutanese refugee case: Ex-minister Rayamajhi’s case adjourned

लगानी न्यूज

७ श्रावण २०८२, बुधबार १५:०७July 23, 2025

Kathmandu. Nepal Communist Party (UML) suspended secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, who has been in judicial custody for the last two years in connection with a fake Bhutanese refugee case, has been summoned for July 15 after the statements of the complainant and witnesses are over.

Information Officer TAG_OPEN_div_26 at The Kathmandu Court, Deepak Kumar Shrestha, said that the case against rayamajhi, former deputy prime minister and currently suspended lawmaker from Arghakhanchi, along with the statement of those who filed the case along with the denial of witnesses, has also been completed.

Presenting TAG_OPEN_div_24 a witness in the case of ‘Fraud documents and crimes against the state and related to organized crime’, Prem Raj Panthi said that he had only signed a complaint with the District Police Office, Teku at that time and other details were not his own.

Advocate Dharma Raj Regmi, a lawyer TAG_OPEN_div_22 who argued, gave a written statement that the main defendant Sanu Bhandari and Keshav Dulal used to call Tanka Gurung’s restaurant several times, but former minister Rayamajhi and his personal secretary Leela GC were not present in those meetings.

Advocate Regmi, TAG_OPEN_div_20 a lawyer, said that panthi did not mention these things when he wrote the complaint and clarified that he had only met Sanu Bhandari on the fourth floor of Everest Hotel and did not meet Rayamajhi. According to him, the case of former minister Rayamajhi has been pending for 29 months.

TAG_OPEN_div_18 The District Police Office, Kathmandu, had issued an arrest warrant on May 20, 2080, after former minister Rayamajhi was made an assistant defendant in the case while Keshav Prasad Dulal, Sanu Bhandari and Sandesh Sharma were also made the main defendants in the case.

TAG_OPEN_div_16 A single bench of District Court Kathmandu Judge Prem Prasad Neupane had on June 1, 2080, remanded Rayamajhi and others to judicial custody. Rayamajhi had filed a writ petition in the High Court and the Supreme Court against the district court’s decision to allow him to fight the case after being released on bail.

Nepali Congress leader Bal Krishna Khand, Rayamajhi’s sons Sandeep Rayamajhi, Angtawa Sherpa and Govinda Chaudhary, who were in judicial custody in the same case, were released on bail by the Supreme Court order. TAG_OPEN_div_14 The High Court, Patan, had ordered that Rijal was mentally ill in the same case.