Socialist Party Nepal lawmaker Surendra Yadav has registered a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) accusing former Nepal Police IGP Sarbendra Khanal, and CPN lawmakers Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha of abducting him from Mahottari.
Yadav went to the NHRC office in Pulchowk on Thursday after both the police and District Government Attorney Office refused to register the abduction complaint and registered an apllication demanding the NHRC instruct the government to take action in the abduction case. "There is still a risk of them taking my life with support of the government and power," the application filed with the NHRC states. "Lawmaker duo Basnet and Shrestha and ex-IGP Khanal should be investigated and punished."
Khanal, Basnet and Shrestha had brought Yadav from Mahottari to Kathmandu on April 22 in what was accused by the party as abduction. Ex-IGP Khanal and former minister Basnet have claimed that they only facilitated arrival of Yadav to Kathmandu as per his plan.
Yadav was brought to Kathmandu at three the next morning and kept at Kathmandu Marriott Hotel with an intention to split Socialist Party with seven lawmakers. But Yadav absconded a few hours later to foil the plan seemingly engineered by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who had brought an ordinance on Monday making it easier to split political parties.
The rebel faction could not muster the necessary 40 percent in parliamentary party after Yadav absconded.