Kathmandu, Aug. 20 -- Despite continuous demands from the victims' families for a probe and various reports pointing fingers at him, Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav and his partymen remained successful in avoiding investigations against them in the 2007 incident of massacre in Gaur, Rautahat.

Every time there is a move towards probing the incident, his party would manoeuvre to deter it. Following weeks-long protests from the Gaur Massacre Victims' Struggle Committee, the Ministry of Home Affairs on August 8, 2023 reached a five-point deal with the panel to launch a probe.

CPN (Maoist Centre) senior vice chair Narayan Kaji Shrestha was leading the ministry then under the Pushpa Kamal Dahal government.

However, a week later, o...