KATHMANDU: Dhungel to stay for 12.5 years in jail The Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday ordered. He has been sent to Dillibazar-based prison to serve the jail term. More than 12 years jail term to the CPN Maoist Centre leader Bal Krishna Dhungel. after 8 years arrest balkirshna dhungel. The Court sentenced 12 years five months and 22 days jail term to him. Dhungel was convicted in the murder case of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha, a resident of his home district, Okhaldhunga. He was arrested after 19 years of the incident and 13 years of the Court’s verdict.
Police had nabbed the absconding murder convict from his rented room in Satdobato of Lalitpur district at 11:00 am this morning. Shrestha was murdered on June 24, 1998, at Tarkerabari of Okhaldhunga and his body was thrown into a river. While the Appellate Court had rejected the District Court order for life imprisonment and confiscation of all his properties, the Supreme Court had upheld the District Court verdict against him.