“According to the investigating officers, if there was a SIM card locator, Bamjan could have been caught on the same day. But due to lack of technology, he managed to escape.” On that day, the police, under the direction of Home Ministry Secretary Maheshwar Neupane, Inspector General of Police Thakur Prasad Gyawali and Bureau Chief Sahakul Thapa, went to search for Bamjan. The team led by SP Pandey had ‘track-and-search-rescue’ dogs.
Featured image: Onlinekhabar
Why the full update about Bomjon is not available in English
A friend of mine brought to my attention the detailed description of the latest police raid to find Bomjon, on the 18th of June, 2020, the article was published on 30 June, 2020. Unfortunately I could not find an English equivalent of the same article on Onlinekhabar. As always, the most important news about Ram Bomjon are never coming out in English language Nepalese media. And we should be not surprised. As soon as these news would come out in English, Bomjon’s fanatic foreign followers, many of whom have no information about his crimes, would pressure Online Khabar to take the article down, and they would intimidate the journalists, as they successfully did to other media over the last 12 or so years! They are not interested in the trouble that rich fundamentalists like Ivy Jugoa, Kim Nguyen, Joan Stanley Baker, Mike Leon, Kishore Sherchand or the German-resident Waiba brothers Uman and Suman would bring on their heads, or, from the Nepali side, the nuisance speculant ex-health-minister Mani Lama’s threats with his political connections…
Because most Nepalis are aware of Bomjon’s crimes, even if he is protected by some Maoist and some Congress (high-level) political leaders, it is less confrontational to publish the articles in Nepali only. Yet, Bomjon’s victims are not only Nepali citizens. I am an European, the obscure Spanish woman, his very first known foreign victim, as well. Then Jason, Bomjon’s 2011 attack victim, is Australian, and Dr. Moore, whom he apparently killed in 2016, was an US citizen.
Still, it would be nice if the Nepali media informed the foreign victims and their family members about the arrest warrants and situation with Nepal’s No. 1 ‘”religious” criminal guru in English, Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese too!
When everything goes wrong during a police raid…
Bomjon had finally not been located, allegedly due to the technical unpreparedness of Nepali police and CIB:
1, The important technical background for locating Bomjon’s SIM card was not available!
2, The life-tracking device to search underground just stopped to function
3, The sniffing dog fell into a pit and lost the lead after reaching the river
150 policemen with sniffing dogs, various devices searching for Bomjon “in the blind” from 4AM till 2PM, without a basic SIM card locator!
I remember reading news about weeks-long trainings given by an French team to Nepali Police in the Police Academy in Kathmandu, and the topic of that volunteer training was exactly this: teaching the ways to trace criminals (especially pedophiles!) by modern technologies. Interestingly, the police chief presiding to that training was the very same person who happily cooperated with Bomjon during my 3 months of torture on chains, failing to rescue me and the Nepali victim Mata Ani: Dan Singh Bohara. Such trainings had been provided to Nepali Police regularly. But when it came to tracing mobile phones and their communications during the famous case of Rabi Lamicchane, police seemed to be very expertly technically prepared. Yet Nepal’s most notorious pedophile “guru”, and a multiple murderer and sacrificer of humans, Ram Bomjon, is somehow always seems to be more technically equipped than Nepal’s Police…
“The training focused on investigation techniques to combat child sexual exploitation, according to the embassy. French instructors taught different investigation techniques such as methods of the interview (victim and offender), searches, dedicated forensic researches, and cyber investigation during the training, according to a press release issued by the embassy on Friday. 19 personnel from Nepal Police and 1 officer from Armed Police Force participated in the training program. Director of National Police Academy Dan Singh Bohara also witnessed the function. Specialized investigators/instructors from France, Benedicte Boret and Stéphane Bertoli were present during the event.”
French Embassy in Nepal hosts training for Nepal Police personnel
Onlinekhabar is showing interesting photos about the police raid:
The photos give us a taste of the surprising luxury that Ram Bomjon, Nepal’s famous “Ascetic Buddha Boy”, had been living in. There are many questions to answer by investigators about where does his huge money come from…
Police and CIB (secret police) searching for Bomjon in Sindhuli Ashram. At one point they decided to check Bomjon’s nuns if he is not hiding among them by any chance, posing as a woman. They said there are strangely many dogs kept in the nuns’ house. Source: Onlinekhabar
Apparently “Ascetic” Bomjon’s bedroom. Onlinekhabar describes that all materials, textiles and furniture in his house in the middle of the Sindhuli Forest, Pare, are brought in from foreign countries and his living area looks like a five star hotel, where swimming pools and gym is also not missing! Source: Onlinekhabar
Based on the claim of Bomjon’s followers (monks and present 3 foreigners) that Bomjon is “meditating in an underground chamber until 2021”, police had brought in life-detecting machines to search for him under the floor of his house, just in case. Such machines were used to find people under the earthquake rubble in 2015. But they did not find Bomjon. Source: Onlinekhabar
Police and CIB forces combed the forest around the Ashram for 8 hours. No lead. At one point the sniffing dog brought them towards a place, but then there was a river where the dogs lost the lead. At one point also Bomjon’s horse appeared, so police was guessing he could be in the place where the horse remained. But they were not successful. Source: Onlinekhabar
Police sniffing dog in the freshly made house interior of Bomjon. It seems he did not spend much time in these quarters yet… Source: Onlinekhabar
The police and CIB forces entered the Sindhuli Ashram at 4 AM and had been trying to find Bomjon until 2 PM. This is the entrance, apparently. Source: Onlinekhabar
Onlinekhabar informs that this is Bomjon’s “meeting hall”. It seems to be newly built and not much used. Source: Onlinekhabar
Police and CIB technicians trying to locate Bomjon in Sindhuli Ashram. Source: Onlinekhabar
The car that Bomjon is allegedly using. Source: Onlinekhabar
The English translation of the Onlinekhabar article:
(Other already translated parts of the main article can be found in picture description and introduction).
Bomjon’s Sindhuli Ashram is spread on the area of 1.89 Acres in the middle of the forest. The security forces searching for him got surprised by the sheer luxury they had been met in Bomjon’s private bungalow in Sindhuli, with gym and swimming pool.
Every material in the house is foreign. Kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms are like in five-star hotels. Somewhere there are decorated stones, somewhere there are attractive paintings. This is where Ram Bahadur Bamjan, the so-called ‘Little Buddha’ of Nepal Police, lives.
A team led by Superintendent of Police (SP) Bel Bahadur Pandey of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police had raided Bamjan’s ashram on June 16, 2020 on the basis of a special lead. Investigating officers conducted a search operation from 4AM to 2PM based on technical analysis. Yet, Bamjan was not found in the ashram of Kamalamai Municipality-9, Pare and the police had to return empty handed.
According to sources, Bamjan is married. And, his wife and child had came to live in Lalitpur, Kathmandu. From there, the Bureau’s investigation officer reached out to an employee/follower of the ashram. He was found to be in regular contact with Bamjan, so the police took him under control (arrested) and secretly monitored Bamjan’s activities through his mobile, because this follower was in a regular phone contact with Bomjon.
When the police entered the ashram during the operation, they called from the follower’s number. But Bomjon could not be contacted. “He may have been suspicious when we phoned several times,” an official involved in the investigation told Onlinekhabar, “so we broke in into the Ashram compound and called Bomjon’s number only after the siege.” That’s when his phone became suddenly switched off.
After his mobile was switched off, the 3 police offices and riot squads could not proceed in the search properly. According to the investigating officers, if there was a SIM card locator, Bamjan could have been caught on the same day. But due to lack of technology, he managed to escape!
When the police gave the sniffing dog to sniff some clothes (of Bomjon?), the dog fell into a pit. Later, when they reached the small river, they decided to give the dog to sniff the clothes once again after crossing, as it is difficult to hold on the lead for the dog when in a river.
The police had seen 3 foreigners living in the Ashram, who had built a house for themselves there. They had spoken to them and the women living in the Ashram, and all had a prepared answer claiming that Bomjon was meditating in an underground pit. They claimed he had been last seen in May 2019, and then he moved underground, and would emerge only in two years (2021).
Based on this claim, the police tried to search the underground (of the bungalow), but the life-detecting device was not working properly.
Bomjon has two cars and a horse in Sindhuli Ashram. The horse walked towards the police and then stopped. From this they suspected first that Bomjon could be somewhere near. But they were not successful to find him, so they thought he might be hiding in some buildings outside the Ashram’s premises, eventually in Sindhuli Bazaar (the town center of Sindhuli District).
Bomjon is occupying the Sindhuli Ashram in the name of “religious forest” and by the help of state machinery. The local municipality had constructed an asphalt road to his ashram. There are many foreigners who help Bomjon (with money). Police claims that Bomjon has a Black Belt level in Karate martial arts, and that he is surrounding himself with security guards who are also expert fighters.
A one-time health minister of Nepal, Mani Lama, is affiliated with Bomjon’s organization Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha (BSDS). As soon as he learned that police investigation started into Bomjon’s crimes last year, he went to personally hand over a memorandum to the chairman of Nekapa Party (CPN – Communist Party of Nepal), Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal), claiming that the media was trying to create communal violence by raising the accusations against Bomjon.
In a press conference in Kathmandu’s Lalitpur, with the help of women’s right activists, the now 18 years old Ganga Maya Tamang (Bomjon’s former nun) had revealed that Bomjon had been repeatedly raping her when she was younger.
Although the incident was taking place over 2016, according to the Nepali law, there is a possibility to prosecute the rapist u to one year from the time that the victim turns 18 years old. That is what happened, when she reached her 18th birthday this summer in 2020.
Bamjan is accused of disappearing Rita Bot of Sarlahi District, Karma Tamang of Nuwakot District, Phulmaya Rumba of Makwanpur District, Suresh Ale Magar of Bara District and Snachalal Waiwa of Makwanpur District. Police suspects that all of them had disappeared from the Sindhuli Ashram. There is a rape compliant in connection with his Sarlahi Ashram. So far there are no crime accusations made in Sindhuli. That’s why police thinks that after the crimes done in one district, he moves to another district.
In January 2020 the police had raided the Todke Forest in Badegaon, Indravati 6 in Sindhupalchowk District. One among the missing followers, Sanchalal Waiwa may have been killed in that place. Bomjon owns 4 hectare land there. Police have found a place with softer soil compared to the surrounding, and they started to dig there. After they digged a hole, they have found 9 empty plastic packages of salt. They believe the salt was used to help in decomposing the corpses.
But the remnants of the murdered body could not be found, and the police could not charge Bomjon with murder. That’s why they focused on prosecuting Bomjon for the rape of Ganga Maya, which finally allowed them to investigate him (issue and arrest warrant). But the police also failed to bring Bomjon to judicial custody for investigation.
According to Sarlahi Police Chief SP Bishwamani Pokharel, the investigation report on the rape allegation against Bamjan has been submitted to the District Public Prosecutor’s Office on June 25, 2020. But there is a fear on the side of police that as soon as Bomjon appears in a court, he would simply announce his victim as mentally ill, as he did in the previous cases.
(Mareechi’s comment: And if he does that, does it mean that Nepal’s lawyers, judges and police become obliged to believe his “diagnoses”??? Very strange Nepali law enforcement indeed…)
The Halkhoriya Times 
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