Nepali Congress (NC) lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam has been arrested from his residence at Rajpur municipality 1 in Rautahat district Sunday morning.
He has been accused of burning alive 23 persons, injured due to explosion while making bombs, at a brick kiln 12 years ago.
He was accused of hiring a few Indians to make bombs for use in the election. Two persons were killed and 23 injured in an explosion at Rajpur Pharadhawa before the first Constituent Assembly (CA) election in 2008.
Families of two persons had complained with the police claiming that he burned the injured persons in the furnace of a nearby brick factory to cover up the incident.
"He has been arrested on order of the Judgement Execution Directorate," SP with Rautahat Police Bhupendra Khatri told Setopati.
The Office of the Attorney General under the then government had not moved the case against Alam forward. The District Attorney's Office had decided to not move the case forward following a decision by the Office of the Attorney General on July 14, 2008 to that regard.
But a bench of the then Supreme Court (SC) justice Sushila Karki on May 27, 2012 ordered Rautahat Police to investigate the case chiding it for not investigating despite sufficient grounds to file a case on grave crime.
The Judgement Execution Directorate had written to Rautahat Police after Alam was not arrested years after the SC order.
Alam is House of Representatives (HoR) member winning the last general election from Rautahat-2.
