At least 14 shootings took place in the last two years but none of them got really sorted out. [break]
"There have been many incidents, but going through the records at different police units we came across only 14," said officials of a special study team formed by Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD).
Nepal Police has started flipping through the records of past shooting incidents in the wake of a series of firing incidents some of which ended in fatalities. These incidents have not only laid bare the government´s inefficiency in controlling serious crimes but also embarrassed the state´s security apparatus.
The special study team has suffered setback at the very outset as even minimum documentation of the shooting cases have not been maintained by police units. A segment of the MPCD team holds that the gangs leading organized crimes have found fertile ground in the post-conflict period environment. Another concern these latest shootings raise is the birth of new criminal gangs that deliberately use weapons to create terror and herald their presence.
Of 14 shootings, eight were committed with a clear purpose of looting. In the shootings with the primary motive of robbing the ´Hundi´ dealers, who facilitate illegal money transfers, were the target.
Underworld connection
The cases of gunfire in the capital have been time and again linked to the international crime rackets, also known as the underworld.
The killing of media baron Jamim Shah, the Central Jail shoot out targeting another media entrepreneur Yunus Ansari and the shooting of a Pakistani embassy official have all pointed at international crime syndicate. Investigations into most of these cases have come to a halt right in their primary stage.
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