NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION and killed them. The incident had taken place on 14 January 2003, at Koili village of Manpur Tapara VDC Ward No. 3, Bardiya district. Since the probe panel found the victims as innocent, and the security personnel guilty, Rifleman Gyan Bahadur Tharu was terminated from the service, and handed out a seven-year jail sentence. Also as per the recommendation of the panel, Corporal Padam Bahadur Khatri was demoted a level, and correspondence was made to the concerned department to initiate legal action against the armed police personnel found guilty in the incident. 6. Regarding the incident of cheating at Bijuli Bazar, Kathmandu In the incident of cheating of businessman Ram Kumar Sharma on 28 August 2002 at Bijuli Bazar, Kathmandu, RNA Personnel Corporal Nawaraj Karki, Rifleman Lal Bahadur Shrestha, Bishnu Pandey and Uttam Silwal were found guilty of cheating three civilians including Ram Kumar Sharma, and court-martialled with termination from service. The court martial also handed jail terms of 3 years to Corporal Nawaraj Karki, 4 years to Rifleman Lal Bahadur Shrestha and 6 months each to Riflemen Bishnu Pandey and Uttam Silwal. 7. Regarding the incident of cheating in Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu In the incident of cheating of Bakery Café proprietor at Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu, on 9 October 2002, RNA personnel gunner Dipak Jung Thapa was found guilty of cheating and levying Rs. 200,000.00 from Laligurans Alina’s Bakery Cafe’s Arjun Bhandari by using the fake letter pad and seal of an organisation then tagged as ‘terrorists’ in the court martial of the incident. The court martial convicted Thapa to four month jail sentence, and suspended grade-promotion for two years. 8. Regarding the robbery in Nawalparasi In the incident of Nawalparasi robbery, RNA Lance Corporal Dev Bahadur Chhetri and his colleagues were found guilty of terrorising and robbing a local Ganesh Prasad Khanal in Nawalparasi on 12 November 2002 and looted properties from him. The court martial gave the ruling to terminate convicted Chhetri and given 3 years jail term. It also ordered paying the compensation of Rs. 17,855.40 to make up the looted property. 9. Regarding the Baglung incident RNA Personnel Corporal Surya Bahadur Khatri deputed to the checkpoint in Baglung was also court-martialled for the incident in which his carelessness had caused death of a civilian woman as he fired at her on 13 April 2003. Khatri was sacked from the army service and given a 9 months jail sentence. 10. Regarding the kidnapping case RNA Rifleman Nar Bahadur Khatri, Lance Corporal Badri Mahat and Corporal Shiva Giri were court-martialled for kidnapping a civilian scribe Bed Prasad Bhattarai from Buddhanagar, Kathmandu, in the pretext of settling down a legal case on 22 August 2002. The court martial terminated Rifleman Nar Bahadur Khatri and Lance Corporal Badri Mahat and given each of them a four-months jail term, while it gave a clean chit to Corporal Shiva Giri. 46