KATHMANDU: Former Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police (DIG) Ranjan Koirala, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, has been arrested again from Baneshwor in Kathmandu on Friday.
Chief of the Valley Crime Investigation Office, Senior Superintendent of Police Basanta Bahadur Kunwar said that he was arrested while he was undergoing legal counseling. According to him, he will be produced in court on Monday. On Thursday alone, the Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison.
Koirala was released from the jail in 2077 BS after a bench of then Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC ruled that the sentence would be fulfilled if he served to eight and a half years in jail.
Reversing the previous order, a bench of acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki, Justices Tanka Moktan and Dr Kumar Chudal on Thursday sentenced him to life imprisonment (20 years imprisonment).
He was arrested by the police at 6.30 pm today. Koirala had killed his wife Geeta Dhakal in 2068 BS.
