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Police had filed a case against him at KDC after he and his accomplices made a murder attempt on one Kaji Sherpa at Bishalnagar on February 21. According to Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD), Hanumandhoka, Manange had been absconding before he finally produced himself at KDC on October 4.
Police officials at MPCD claimed that Manange had come from India after learning that KDC had freed him on a bail of Rs 25,000. Surprisingly, his accomplice Ashok Rai, who faces the same charge, is still in judicial custody.
Manange was put in Dillibazar Prison over a murder attempt on March 31, 2005. Thanks to his strong nexus with political party leaders and a few 'corrupt' police officials, the authorities had not only provided him with a separate room but also gave him the title of Bhai Naike the day he stepped into jail last year. The title allowed him to get released two months and 20 days before completion of his jail term.
As per existing Prison Regulations, such a title is awarded to someone among the prison inmates who knows all the other prisoners in person, has good conduct, and is serving a long jail-term.
Sources at the prison said Manage continued to enjoy a separate room even as 30 other prisoners were once sent to Hanumandhoka due to shortage of space at the penitentiary. Contrary to the existing rules, the authorities had also allowed him unmonitored communications facilities including a cell phone and meetings with his friends on a regular basis while in prison.
Officials at the Department of Prison Management (DoPM) said Manange even got his room repaired on his own last year for his own personnel comfort. "Later, we released the budget to pay the money he spent on the repair work," admitted an official at DoPM.
Prior to this, Manange has already served prison terms over three separate attempted murder cases, besides dozen others crimes including extortions. Apprehensive of further crimes on part of gang, police had detained him for a day to acquire fresh details about him before setting him free today. He is claimed to have over 300 accomplices including some three dozen 'committed' members in Kathmandu valley and various other parts of the country to unleash criminal activities.
Police Investigation officers are frustrated over this state of affairs. "These criminals are not arrested at all. Even if they are arrested and sent to prisons, they never get the chance to sense that they are in prison with rigorous restrictions," a police official at MPCD said venting his anger. "How would there be an effective criminal justice system when such perpetrators get protection from political party leaders for their own vested interests?"
A former president of the Nepali Congress-aligned Nepal Tarun Dal in Manang district, Manange is allegedly backed by central leaders of the ruling Nepali Congress. Previously, he is also said to have been close to the Pashupati Shumsher Rana-led Rastriya Prajatantra Party. A reliable police source said senior NC leaders and so-called influential persons had approached the police not to arrest him again.