Extrajudicial killings: Court order to form mechanism could provide justice to victims’ kin

Such crimes have so far been investigated by Nepal Police or a task force, but perpetrators are hardly ever punished as investigations are not honest, human rights activists say.

After two years of investigation, the National Human Rights Commission in October had concluded that the killing of Gopal Tamang, 23, of Sindhupalchok and Ajay Tamang, 24, from Nuwakot in a forest in Bhaktapur district by the police were extrajudicial.