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Official, cop rob woman at TIA
KATHMANDU, DEC 18 - In a classic case of guardians of the law turning lawbreakers, an official at the Tribhuvan International Airport and a police constable robbed a woman returning from Saudi Arabia four weeks ago.
Sita Rai (name changed) on Sunday filed a complaint at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) against the duo and said the she was sexually abused and robbed of 9,500 riyal (around Rs 218,000).
The woman from Bhojpur has named constable Parshu Ram Basnet and senior non-gazetted officer at the Department of Immigrations at the TIA , Somnath Khanal, in her complaint.
While police on Sunday arrested Basnet and is at the Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka, presently, Khanal is at large.
Spokesperson at the police range DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh said Basnet told the police that Khanal fled with the money.
Rai, who had gone to Saudi Arabia via India, landed at the TIA on the night of November 21. She was carrying a fake passport in the name of Bimala KC, Rai admitted in her complaint.
The official and the policeman at the TIA seized her belongings and travel documents on the pretext of a 'regular check,' Rai said.
According to her, Basnet then took her to the New Bus Park to drop her. She was, however, forced to spend a night with him at a local guest house, she said.
"He paid all the bills at the guest house and bought a bus ticket to Bhojpur for me and left," Rai says in her complaint. She realised only later that the official s actually stole her money. "He paid for everything to make sure that I didn't reach for my purse," she says.
MoHA Secretary Navin Kumar Ghimire has formed a panel led by joint secretary Bhola Siwakoti to look into the case.
"I received the complaint today and talked with the victim. We are not in a position to comment until the probe panel prepares the report," Ghimire said.