It has been revealed that Deepak Pandey, a district member leader of the Maoist Center Kapilvastu, was killed under his wife’s instruction. Pandey, 34, of Kapilvastu Municipality-1 was shot dead on May 19 night.After the shooting, Pandey was taken to Universal Medical College for treatment. Pandey died on the way to Kathmandu by helicopter on May 26 after failing to get treatment there.
It has been revealed that the masterminds of the incident were Om Prakash Yadav and Mahima Pandey. It has been found that Mahima Pandey had been using different people to kill her husband before.Yadav, 39, of Kapilvastu-1, the chief planner, is the personal secretary of Lumbini state assembly member Sahasram Yadav of the Janata Samajwadi Party.Yadav is also the Lumbini state president of the Samajwadi Vidyarthi Union, a student organization close to the Janata Samajwadi.
Police have made public the names of 11 people involved in the incident, including his wife.Pandey was shot dead by three or four persons on a motorcycle at 11 pm on April 19.Yadav was riding a Pulsar motorcycle (Lu 16 Pa 3497) used in the incident. Ramzan Sah Musalman and Sakir Ali Pakhiya, who were on the back of the motorcycle, shot Pandey one by two with two pistols.Pakhiya fired one round from a sharp pistol while Muslims fired one round from an automatic pistol.
According to police, weapons and ammunition were recovered from the three. According to Kapilvastu Police Spokesperson Deputy Superintendent of Police Dharmaraj Bhandari, 68 rounds of pistol, magazine and 22 Magnum bullets were recovered from Yadav.Also, a Made in USA pistol, a magazine and eight rounds of ammunition were recovered from the Muslims. He had taken one lakh rupees from Yadav to kill Pandey.He monitored Pandey’s activities, bought weapons and kept them with him.Similarly, Pakhiya had taken betel nuts from Omprakash to kill Pandey, took weapons and kept them with him.He had hidden the shot pistol in the house of Purnavir Palpali.
Seven other people were arrested in the incident. Among the arrested are Purnavir Palpali, 35, of Anandbagh, Kapilvastu Municipality-1, Saddam Hussain Khan of Ward No. 2, Gyanendra Kumar Pandey of Yashodhara Village Municipality-4, Radheshyam Chaudhary of the same place, Shri Ram Kurmi of Kapilvastu-5, Narasat Ali of Kapilvastu-1 and Ward No. 2. Praveen Gupta.After the incident, the police had started investigation under the name of ‘Mike Whiskey’ led by DSP Bhandari.According to the investigation, Palpali had hidden the pistol used in the incident out of the seven arrested.Pandey had brought arms from India and sold them to defendant Radheshyam Chaudhary.Similarly, Saddam Hussein Khan, Radheshyam Chaudhry and Kurmi helped Shakir Ali Pakhiya to buy and sell weapons.Narasat Ali took Rs 1 lakh in cash from the chief planner Yadav and bought weapons and gave them to him.
According to DSP Bhandari, the rift between Omprakash and Deepak Pandey was due to an immoral relationship between Pandey’s wife Mahima Pandey.For the past five years, there has been a rift between Omprakash and Deepak.After Deepak got irritated by this relationship, it is seen that Mahima started planning to kill him again and again.”Mahima has been using the seven men arrested for killing Deepak for two or three years, repeatedly trying to kill them and failing,” Bhandari said. “The last attempt seems to have succeeded.”An investigation has been started into the arrest of the arrested persons in the case of duty life, arms and ammunition.Among the arrested persons, Sakir Ali Pakhiya was arrested on April 19, 2008 in the arms and ammunition case. He was released from prison at the time.