{"id":16465,"date":"2026-05-06T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16465"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:06:44","slug":"fake-refugee-case-court-orders-extraction-of-evidence-file-against-three-dozen-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16465","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Fake Refugee Case: Court Orders Extraction of Evidence File Against Three Dozen Accused<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Kathmandu District Court has ordered the extraction of the evidence file in the fake Bhutanese refugee case against 30 individuals, including former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand and former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi.<\/p>\n<p>A bench presided over by Judge Khimanand Bhusal, while hearing the case on Tuesday, directed that the evidence file be produced for the purpose of final adjudication. The accused face charges of forgery, fraud, organised crime and offences against the state, with allegations that they played a role in forming an organised racket to pass off Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Among the accused are Congress leader Khand, UML leader Rayamajhi, then Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, former lawmaker Angtawa Sherpa, and Indrajit Rai, the security advisor to then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, along with Keshav Dulal, his wife Deepa Humagain, Sanu Bhandari and Sandesh Sharma. 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A bench presided over by Judge Khimanand Bhusal, while hearing the case on Tuesday, directed that the evidence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fake Refugee Case: Court Orders Extraction of Evidence File Against Three Dozen Accused - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16465\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fake Refugee Case: Court Orders Extraction of Evidence File Against Three Dozen Accused - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kathmandu. 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