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Again Enforced Disappearance In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 19, 2012: the Nepal Police have not abandoned the practice of causing enforced disappearance of people taken in custody. The Asian Human Rights Commission has reported that a man in the police custody in the Banke district disappeared. The police arrested the man on September 6, 2012 alleging him of rape and the police reported that he escaped from the police custody on September 8. However, since then neither his family members nor his friends have heard anything from him. After 11 days of the alleged escape from the police custody, the police disclosed that the man had drowned in the river while the police was pursuing him. The police have not been able to produce evidences in support of this claim. An investigation team has been formed but the team has not disclosed his whereabouts, yet.
Deepak Pariyar, 22, a permanent resident of Binouna VDC-08, Banke district was arrested by police officers dispatched from Area Police Office, Dhampur, Banke district on September 6, 2012 on the charge of attempted rape. The following day, his family visited him at the police station and was able to meet him. On September 8, 2012, the police visited his mother’s house and informed her that he had run away at 7 AM from the police custody. The police reported that Mr Pariyar was left without handcuffs under the watch of a single police constable; he had run away when the police constable went to the toilet. That day the police scattered looking for him but could not find him. On September 19, 11 days after Mr Pariyar was said to have run away from custody, the police informed his family members that he had allegedly drowned in the Rapti river while being chased by policemen on September 8, 2012.
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