Police have arrested an absconding attempted murder convict Rajib Gurung aka Deepak Manange from Swoyambhu of the Capital on Thursday.
A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, rounded up Manange, who was elected as an independent candidate to a provincial assembly seat from Manang district, this evening.
Earlier in January, the Supreme Court (SC) had convicted Manange in an attempted murder case and sentenced him to five years in prison. He had several run-ins with the law on numerous criminal charges in the past.
He was on the run since the SC upheld the Patan Appellate Court’s verdict to jail him for five years in an attempted murder case.
Responding to a 13-year-old case of gang war between Manange and his rival Milan Gurung aka Chakre, the Patan Appellate Court in 2012 had ruled the incident as an attempted murder case and ordered five years jail sentence to Manange.
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