Nepali Congress general secretary and member of the House of Representatives (HoR) has demanded an immediate end to amnesty to prisoners involved in serious crimes. In the HoR special session today, the leader asked the government to have a clarity in the existing laws and make new laws to prevent such mistakes from taking place again in the future.
On amnesty granted to 670 jailbirds on the Constitution Day recently, leader Thapa said, "Serious crime convicts have been exempted from imprisonment by creeping in through legal loopholes against the spirit of the constitution. This is wrong decision. Protest against this is natural and desirable. It is protested. The issue has reached the court and it is a mockery of us."
Mentioning that there is a facility in the world to grant amnesty to inmates as per the law in case of human errors or injustice, he clarified that the main spirit of this is that none is subject to injustice.
Prisoners involved in serious crimes should not be used to fulfil interests of anyone through legal loopholes, he emphasised.
Saying that there is a provision that a person who has been jailed for life should not get amnesty, he expressed his concern that even a person who was facing a case of the contempt of court has been released. Informing that there is a provision that no one is granted amnesty without specifying the basis and laws, leader Thapa said the institution of President should not be unnecessarily brought into disrepute.
Stressing the need for the government to clarify and carry out reforms on the matter in the future, he demanded for making and integrating new laws while removing legal loopholes so laws cannot be misinterpreted.
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