Cases related to heinous crimes not withdrawn, clarifies PM’s Secretariat

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The Private Secretariat of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has made it clear that the cases related to those accused of heinous crimes took place in Tikapur of Kailali and other places will not be withdrawn.</span><br></p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p>In a press release it issued today, PM's private secretariat said not a single case of atrocious crimes has been taken back nor was there any situation for doing so.&nbsp;</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p>A meeting of the Council of Ministers on Thursday had decided to acknowledge the Tarai-Madhes movement as a political movement.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p>The Cabinet meeting had on Thursday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to start home work for the process of withdrawing the cases filed against people who were not involved in the incidents of riots and killing including in Tikapur<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p>In a bid to create the environment conducive for the second-phase local-level elections, the government had made a decision to initiate the process to take back, as per the law, the false cases filed against those people not involved in such incidents.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The PM secretariat has appealed to all to work towards making preparation for the second-phase local-level election which remains to be held.</p>