KATHMANDU: Newly appointed Attorney General Mukti Narayan Pradhan on Tuesday stated that all the cases filed against the UCPN-Maoist leaders during the decade long conflict will be withdrawn.
Speaking at an interaction program organised by Reporter’s Club in Kathmandu, Pradhan said, all those cases lodged against Maoists at a time when they were fighting against the then state governance system are political in nature. “So no one should express their dissent in a contrary opinion,” argued Pradhan, who is affiliated to the Maoist.
While saying that withdrawing cases of political nature is not a new phenomenon, which began since the1990 revolution, Pradhan added “if cases had not been withdrawn, Madhav Kumar Nepal, K P Oli and Jhala Nath Khanal would have been languishing inside the prison.”
Bhattarai’s party UCPN-Maoist had earlier signed a four-point deal with Madhes-based parties saying the government would withdraw criminal charges against Maoist and Madhesi leaders filed during the decade-long conflict and the Madhes movement in the run up to formation of the ruling coalition.
However, opposition parties Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have been vehemently criticizing the deal, terming it a conspiracy hatched against rule of law. Similarly national and international human rights groups have been condemning it, arguing that it would promote the culture of impunity.
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