Two days after his arrest, suspended UCPN (Maoist) lawmaker Lharkyal Lama rejected polygraph test on Tuesday.

Polygraph test, also known as a lie-detecting test, helps determine if the tested person is lying or not through the monitoring of vitals including blood pressure and heart rate.

Superintendent of Police Pradhyumna Karki, spokesperson for the Range, said Lama did not want to undergo the test. “Since he was not ready for the test, we did not force him,” said SP Karki.

Nepal police introduced polygraph test in 2014 although the court does not accept its results.

Meanwhile, the Com-mission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority and Nepal Police opened up another locker of Standard Chartered Bank, Lazimpat branch, used by Lama. 

SP Karki said the locker was empty.

Lama was held on Sunday after 14 bullets were found in his Nepal Investment bank locker during an investigation by the CIAA into his property. The District Administration Office subsequently remanded him in custody for five days.

Lama, a former CPN-UML member, was the state minister for finance in the Jhala Nath Khanal-led government in 2011. 

He resigned from the post on April 21, just 11 days after assuming office, after he ran into a controversy for possessing Nepali citizenship certificate, Indian passport and a Tibetan refugee identity card. He then quit the UML. But he later joined the Maoist party, which in February 2015 nominated him a lawmaker.