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Mutiny Against Bad Food and Bad Treatment
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
A group of about 200 policemen of the Armed Police force (APF) mutinied against their officers of the Bageshwori battalion at Shamshergunj in a barrack near Nepalgunj town in west Nepal alleging the officers of mistreating, and inflicting torture, providing them with inferior quality of rations, and held three District Police Officers (DSP) and 14 inspectors as hostages on Saturday night, June 21, 2008. The mutineers took hold of the cell phones from the hostages and also whipped them. They not only refused to talk to the high-ranking police officers from Kathmandu but even let them in the barrack. The mutineers wanted the government to take actions against the corrupt commander and the accountant taking the stock of their property.
On Monday, June 23, 2008, the mutineers signed off a 22-point agreement with the team of spokesperson for the Home Ministry Modraj Dotel and APF’s Additional Inspector General of Police Narayan Pandey that came from Kathmandu to settle the issue, and released all officers held hostages. Spokesperson Dotel said the government would implement the agreement at all APF units across the country. Leader of the mutineers, Assistant sub-inspector Tej Bahadur Balayar said that they would continue the rebellion if the agreement were not implemented within a month.
