Kathmandu, Sept. 28 -- Social media is abuzz with speculations on how former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his spouse, Arzu Rana Deuba, the immediate past foreign minister, got diplomatic passports on September 19, when offices were closed as Nepal marked its Constitution Day.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Passports are still tight-lipped on how and when the Deuba couple obtained diplomatic passports. The Deubas were severely beaten by an angry mob on September 9 at their residence in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu.

There are also charges that they were trying to flee the country in the wake of the Gen Z protest.

Not only that, the Department of Money Laundering Investigation inspected Deuba's residence last ...