By Xinhua
Kathmandu : Nepali government has formed a high-level judicial committee to probe the unprecedented violence in Kapilvastu district and surrounding areas and announced immediate relief to the victims, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported Friday.
An emergency meeting of the cabinet held at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Thursday evening constituted a three-member judicial probe panel led by Appellate Court judge Lokendra Mallik.
Joint-attorney General Puspha Raj Koirala and Inspector Generalof Police (AIG) Niraj Pun are the members of the committee.
After the meeting, Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula said the cabinet condemned the violence, expressed its condolence to the victims and urged the residents of affected region to exercise restrain.
The cabinet has also decided to release 10,000 Nepali rupees (around 154 U.S. dollars) to each family with persons that lost member in the violence as an immediate relief.
Similarly, the government will provide 10,000 rupees to each of those whose homes have been completely destroyed in the violence and 5,000 rupees (around 77 U.S. dollars) to those whose houses were partially damaged.
The violence erupted in Kapilvastu district, some 200 km west of Kathmandu, after the killing of Democratic Madhesi Mukti Morcha Chairman Mohit Khan on Sunday. The agitated mob Sunday lynched an Armed Police Force constable, Hassan Puri.
The administration of Kapilvastu District imposed indefinite curfew in Kapilvastu Municipality and surrounding villages from 1:30 p.m. (0815 GMT) on Sunday.
According to report from local newspaper The Himalayan Times, the death toll in the riot has reached 35.
District Police Office informed that 110 vehicles have been either vandalized or torched while over 300 houses in various places have been set ablaze by violent groups.