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Thursday, 25 July 2019
Man held with ‘16 kg gold’ from Gorkha
Pokhara / Kathmandu, July 25
Police confiscated ‘16 kg gold’ from Khorlabesi bazaar in Dharche Rural Municipality in Gorkha today, following the arrest of Dhana Kamal Gurung of Dharche Rural Municipality, Gorkha, yesterday.
A police team assigned from Machhakhola Police Post found the gold today, acting on Gurung’s statement.
A trader by profession, Gurung used to supply daily essentials to remote villages of Uhiya, Sirdibas, Chumchet and Bihi from Machhakhola bazaar, Arughat and Arakhet areas. But he went missing on June 26.
“He went to Tibet for a few day on a business trip, but largely stayed in the district until June 26. We heard that local youths tried to attack him that night. He had been out of contact since then,” said a local.
His family then sought the help of police to find him.
Police found him and learnt that he had hidden gold smuggled from Tibet in Gorkha. He was then arrested.
Gurung’s interrogation revealed that he called his kin claiming he had been kidnapped. He then switched off his cell phone and disappeared after hiding gold in a den 66 km from district headquarters, as a rival group came to know what he was carrying.
“We’ve recovered 16 one-kg biscuits that look like gold. We have to verify whether the seized metal is gold,” said Gorkha Superintendent of Police Om Prasad Adhikari.
Gurung was brought to Gorkha headquarters, along with the seized metal, this evening.
Police have yet to ascertain whether Gurung is a gold smuggler or a carrier.
Last year also police had seized 10 kg gold that was smuggled to Gorkha from Ruila entry point.
Nepal Police arrested 107 persons with more than 84 kilograms of gold in 11 months of fiscal 2018-19.
Most of the smuggled gold enters Nepal from Gulf countries through TIA and Tatopani and Rasuwagadi-Kerung points via Tibet.
Ironically, only yesterday Minister of Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa, while speaking at a press meet organised to make public the one-year report card of his ministry, had claimed that the government had neutralised gold smuggling rackets.
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150 migrants feared dead after boats capsize off Libya coast
CAIRO: Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the country’s coast guard and the UN refugee agency said.
A top UN official described the shipwreck as “the worst Mediterranean tragedy” so far this year.
Rescued migrants sit on a coast some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Photo: AP
The International Rescue Committee said the tragedy was a stark reminder of the humanitarian crisis emerging out of Libya and of the urgent need for search and rescue missions to be resumed in the Mediterranean.
Ayoub Gassim, a spokesman for Libya’s coast guard, told The Associated Press that two boats carrying around 300 migrants capsized around 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli.
Around 137 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya, he said, and the coast guard has recovered just one body so far.
Charlie Yaxley, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency, said 147 had been saved.
“We estimate that 150 migrants are potentially missing and died at sea,” he said. “The dead include women and children.”
Yaxley added that so far this year, one person has died on the route from Libya to Europe for every six people that reached Europe shores.
“The worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year has just occurred,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
In January, some 117 died or went missing off Libya’s coast and around 65 people drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia in May.
Grandi called on European nations to resume rescue missions in the Mediterranean, halted after an EU decision, and appealed for an end to migrant detentions in Libya.
He said safe pathways out of the North African country are needed “before it is too late for many more desperate people.”
Asked about the latest boat sinking and deaths, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq expressed the world body’s concerns. “We’ve made clear the need for all the countries in the region to work to ensure first and foremost that the lives of those people who have placed themselves in such great risk are protected,” he said.
After the uprising that toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, Libya became a major conduit for African migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe.
Traffickers and armed groups have exploited Libya’s chaos since his overthrow, and have been implicated in widespread abuses of migrants, including torture and abduction for ransom.
Thomas Garofalo, director for Libya at the International Rescue Committee, which responds to global humanitarian crises, said migrants “intercepted at sea must not be returned to Libya.”
Earlier this week, the Libyan coast guard intercepted around three dozen migrants off the coast and took them to a detention centre near Tripoli where an airstrike killed more than 50 people earlier this month.
Over 200 detainees are still being held at the Tajoura detention centre, near the front lines of fighting between rival Libyan factions. The UN has voiced concern for their safety.
In recent years the European Union has partnered with the coast guard and other Libyan forces to prevent migrants from making the dangerous journey by sea to Europe. Rights groups say those efforts have left migrants at the mercy of brutal armed groups or confined in squalid detention centres that lack adequate food and water.
At least 2,500 migrants are detained in centres in and around Tripoli, where forces loyal to commander Khalifa Hifter have been battling an array of militias loosely aligned with a UN-recognized government since April in an attempt to seize the capital. The Libyan government has blamed the Tajoura airstrike on the detention centre on Hifter’s forces, which denied responsibility and accused government-linked militias of storing weapons at the facility.
The UN refugee agency says 164 migrants have died travelling from Libya to Europe since the start of the year, fewer than in previous years. But the UN says the journey is becoming more dangerous for those who attempt it, with one out of four perishing at sea before reaching Europe.
The UN’s death toll did not include those reported missing at sea Thursday.
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Perpetrators can still be nabbed based on DNA: Experts
Kathmandu, July 25
Police may get important clues on people who raped and murdered Nirmala Panta if they conduct advanced test of DNA samples collected from vaginal swab of the 13-year-old, according to DNA experts.
A test conducted by the police had shown traces of male DNA in the vaginal swab of Nirmala, who was raped and murdered on July 26, states a National Human Rights Commission report released on January 23.
“But the volume of male DNA sample retrieved from Nirmala’s vaginal swab was too small. Also, the male DNA sample collected from the swab was highly degraded,” said Dinesh Kumar Jha, chief of DNA Unit at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology.
However, desired results can be generated from heavily damaged DNA samples if techniques like SNP genotyping are deployed, according to Jha, who is also a member of the high-level probe committee formed by the NHRC to investigate Nirmala’s rape and murder, which sparked nationwide protests.
But SNP genotyping cannot be performed in Nepal. “However, those tests can be carried out in highly advanced laboratories in developed countries,” said Jha, suggesting that the police send the male DNA samples collected from Nirmala’s vaginal swab to foreign laboratories.
The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police in mid-February said it had started laying the groundwork to send the sample to foreign labs. It had also claimed to have exchanged e-mails with foreign labs. But even after five months police have made no headway.
“We did hold formal and informal talks with foreign technicians on this matter. But they did not encourage us to move ahead,” said CIB Director and Deputy Inspector General Niraj Bahadur Shahi, adding, “Generally, foreign laboratories hesitate to accept samples examined by other laboratories.”
However, a DNA expert told THT that police were “making excuses” because they did not have adequate volume of male DNA sample extracted from Nirmala’s vaginal swab to conduct necessary tests abroad.
Police deny that claim.
“We will send the sample to foreign laboratories to perform sophisticated tests if they show interest,” DIG Shahi said.
Nepal at present performs two DNA tests: Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and DNA sequencing. The STR is the most common method under which specific characteristics of the DNA are studied from two or more samples. DNA sequencing, on the other hand, is a method under which broken DNA samples are studied to identify the DNA type.
Nirmala’’s vaginal swab was tested using STR method.
Police have so far collected DNA samples of over 40 people, according to multiple sources. However, names of only 12 people have been made public. Police have interrogated more than 500 people in relation to the case.
Timeline
- July 26, 2018: 13-year-old Nirmala Panta of Bhimdatta Municipality in Kanchanpur district goes missing
- July 27: Nirmala’s body is found
- Aug 19: Police arrest mentally ill Dilip Singh Bista, 41, on charge of rape and murder of Nirmala. Locals protest, claiming he was not the culprit
- Aug 24: 14-year-old protester Sunny Khuna killed in police firing
- Aug 25: Government announces compensation of Rs 1 million each to families of Nirmala and Sunny. Police sack SP Dilli Raj Bista, DSP Gyanendra Bahadur Sethi and Inspector Ekendra Khadka for botching up investigation
- Sept 12: Nirmala’s parents visit Kathmandu to seek justice
- Jan 4: Nirmala’s mother and Khadak Bista, brother of Dilip Singh, file FIR against eight police personnel accusing them of misleading the investigation and torturing suspects in police custody
- March 6: Eight police personnel booked
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