Kathmandu, April 27 -- The saga of the alleged kidnapping of a Member of Parliament from Janakpur continues to unfold in a manner both bizarre but not unexpected.

Police on Sunday refused to register an abduction case against two Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leaders-Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha-and former police chief Sarbendra Khanal for their roles in the alleged kidnapping of lawmaker Surendra Yadav on Wednesday.

Leaders from the newly formed Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal had approached the Metropolitan Police Range in Teku with a complaint that Yadav, one of their lawmakers, had been kidnapped from Janakpur by Basnet, Shrestha and Khanal and forcefully brought to Kathmandu.

"But the police refused to register the complaint as pe...