Custodial deaths go on as perpetrators are left unpunished

Advocacy Forum’s 2022 report documents 39 deaths since 2018 when the new Penal Code came into force.

On August 9, two inmates of the Sankhuwasabha prison succumbed to injuries after they were thrashed by the police personnel guarding them and other prisoners. Binod Tolagni, 19, from the district headquarters, Khandbari, and Akash Balami, 28, from Kakani of Nuwakot district, who were serving their terms, were pronounced dead at a local hospital.