Although the Metropolitan Crime Branch claims to have completed significant work over the past year, it has not yet succeeded in solving the mystery of the assassination of Nepal's former ambassador to France, Keshav Raj Jha.
Jha, 80, was found stabbed to death on August 20 last year at his residence in Babarmahal, Kathmandu.
“The investigation into the murder of former Ambassador Jha is still ongoing.
A separate team has investigated the case,” Senior Superintendent of Police Dhiraj Pratap Singh said.
“Since this is a high-profile murder case, we needed to explore it from many different angles such as financial, political, family and personal issues, among others.
The matter will be resolved soon.
According to a senior officer of the division, who chose to remain anonymous, the lack of evidence was a major obstacle to the case.
“Several key suspects in the murder case were released due to lack of evidence against them.
The investigation continues and is focused on finding important evidence,” the official said.
On September 14, Sanu Kanchha, Aita Singh and Jay Bahadur, all of whom had worked for the Jha family, were released on bail.
The trio maintained their innocence from the start and their innocence thereafter were proven after a polygraph test showed they were telling the truth.
Briefing the division's performance in the past one year on Thursday, Singh said that apart from the Jha case, the division has been able to solve various high-level cases and arrested a number of culprits over the past year.
From April 18, 2018, to May 7, 2019, the division arrested a total of 686 culprits in connection with 448 cases.
It arrested senior leaders of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal including in-charge of the party's mid-central command Hemanta Prakash Oli 'Sudarshan' and party's army bureau chief Bijay Shrestha 'Prajwalan'.
Along with senior leaders, the division had also arrested the major person of the Chand-outfit who planted explosive devices near the Ncell headquarters at Nakkhu, Lalitpur, on February 22, and at Basundhara, Kathmandu, on March 8.
The explosion at Nakkhu had claimed one human life.
On March 9, the division had arrested Shiva Dhimal and Dikendra Rai from Kathmandu while Rajiv Tamang and Num Bahadur BK were arrested from Kavre.
The four had planted the explosives at Nakkhu and Basundhara.
The division had also arrested four accused—Ambar Bahadur Rana, Lopsang Lama, Roshan Budathoki and Maya Sherchan Basnet—involved in the murder of Sharad Kumar Gauchan, chairman of the Federation of Contractors' Association of Nepal.
A dozen arms were also seized by the division from six different individuals who had permission from the government to keep the weapons but were misusing them to terrorise the public.
However, the division courted controversy over the encounter of two kidnappers—Ajay Tamang and Gopal Tamang—at Bhaktapur on August 6 last year.
The duo's families claim that the encounter was an extrajudicial killing.
The duo kidnapped and killed 11-year-old Nishan Khadka.
Till this day, it has remained unsolved. The criminal is roaming free in the world without paying for his crime.
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