Kailash Sirohiya Nepal’s media tycoon and chairman of Kantipur Media Group (KMG) was arrested on the allegation of misuse of citizenship. He was arrested from the Thapathali – based central office on Tuesday evening, by a police team consisting of officials from Kathmandu valley crime investigation.
The media tycoon was arrested after the Dhanusha District Court issued an arrest warrant against him in an alleged citizenship offence case. It is said that a complaint was filed because he put somebody else’s citizen ship number on his citizenship certificate. he obtained his citizenship certificate in the 70’s and later obtained a duplicate certificate.
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However, Sirohiya has denied all such allegations. While being escorted out from his office by the police he said that he was being targeted with a political motive. Sirohiya said, “The government demonstrated its authoritarian ways despite my willingness to assist in the investigation. This is an assault on the Press Freedom and I will fight till the end.”
नेपाली बंशजका नागरिकहरु विरुद्ध निरन्तर भ्रमपुर्ण समाचार सम्प्रेषणगर्दै राज्य आम नागरिक एवं समाजलाई घुम्राहमा राखेर किर्ते नागरिकताको आडमा व्यावसाय गर्दै आएको भारतीय धोती @KailashSirohiya यसको सपरिवारको नागरिकता छानबिन हुनुपर्छ पक्राउ पर्दाको आक्रोश धम्की यसले ल्याएको गणतन्त्र रे https://t.co/Px3rwfEBXg pic.twitter.com/BmDLxYcLxW
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The Kantipur Media Group had recently covered a news about the misappropriations of Deputy Prime minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane. He was alleged to have misappropriated cooperative funds while working as an office bearer of Galaxy TV. On Tuesday, Sirohiya expressed his readiness to cooperate in any investigation conducted as per the law. He also said that all this was done to blackmail him to not publish more reports on cooperative frauds.
Sirohiya added, “It is the media’s responsibility to raise its voice and demand justice and a fair investigation into all those involved in the embezzlement of the hard-earned savings of more than 7.1 million depositors in various cooperatives.”
The Chairman of Kantipur said that they will not back down on raising its voice against wrongdoings.
