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Nepal's erstwhile Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was remanded successful judicial custody for 5 days by the Kathmandu District Court connected Sunday (March 29, 2026), adjacent arsenic protests proceed to erupt successful assorted parts of the state implicit the arrests.
Mr. Oli and erstwhile Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) for their alleged engagement successful suppressing the Gen Z question of September 8 and 9 past year, successful which 76 people, including astir 2 twelve youths, were killed.
The arrests came a time aft the newly formed Balendra Shah government decided to instrumentality the study of the probe committee into the Gen Z protests successful its archetypal furniture meeting.
Mr. Lekhak was presented earlier the territory tribunal seeking remand for 10 days to transportation retired further probe into their alleged engagement successful the incidents of killings. He was besides remanded successful custody for 5 days. However, ex-PM Oli virtually attended the territory tribunal league owed to his deteriorating wellness conditions, according to Deepak Kumar Shrestha, accusation serviceman astatine the territory court.
Mr. Oli is presently undergoing aesculapian attraction astatine Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital successful Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, arsenic his wellness conditions deteriorated erstwhile helium was taken to the infirmary connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) for a wellness check-up pursuing the arrest.
"He is simply a station renal transplant diligent with hydronephrosis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, atrial fibrillation with APC [on treatment] and cholelithiasis," reads a connection issued by the hospital.
He volition stay successful the infirmary during the five-day custody.
Workers of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lennist) held a protestation successful Maitighar against the apprehension of the enactment chair, Oli.
The CPN-UML has submitted a protestation missive to the District Administration Offices (DAOs) crossed the country, including Kathmandu, to reason the arrests.
Supporters of Nepal's erstwhile Prime Minister and Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) K.P. Sharma Oli march escorted by constabulary during a protestation pursuing Oli's detention by police, who are investigating whether helium was negligent successful preventing dozens of deaths during the Gen Z protests, successful Kathmandu, Nepal, March 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Mr. Oli’s enactment has been staging protests crossed the state demanding the contiguous merchandise of Chairman K.P. Oli since Saturday (March 28, 2026).
In the memorandum, the enactment has objected to the proposal of the probe committee formed to analyse the incidents of September 8-9, to instrumentality ineligible enactment against precocious officials, including Mr. Oli and Mr. Lekhak.
A abstracted habeas corpus has been registered astatine the Supreme Court demanding the merchandise of erstwhile PM Oli and past Home Minister Lekhak, according to the court's sources.
In different development, the Nepal constabulary connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) arrested former Energy Minister and Nepali Congress person Deepak Khadka successful transportation with a money-laundering case, section media reported.
The constabulary detained Khadka for probe aft receiving a petition from the Department of Money Laundering Investigation. During the Gen Z protestation past year, images and videos had surfaced showing burnt fragments of banknotes astatine the residences of Khadka and erstwhile premier ministers Sher Bahadur Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The findings were reportedly aboriginal confirmed done forensic laboratory tests.
Mr. Khadka was accused of receiving fiscal benefits successful speech for facilitating licences and contracts for projects portion serving arsenic the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.
